Snakes In The Ball Pit => Yay, I get to talk about me! => Topic started by: montrith on April 19, 2016, 10:18:38 pm

Sometimes when I go shopping I like to look at what the people in front of me me are buying and imagine what kind of party they're going to have. Another day there was this guy who bought 40 beers and two cartons of eggs.

Today I thought I might start doing cardio. Then I thought I'd wait til it warmed up outside and jump rope. I did not check the forecast to see when it would warm up. I do not own a jump rope.I can't puzzle out beer and eggs either. Maybe he's gonna get a bunch of ladies intoxicated and take advantage of them, then make them omelettes in the morning.

Sometimes when I go shopping I like to look at what the people in front of me me are buying and imagine what kind of party they're going to have. Another day there was this guy who bought 40 beers and two cartons of eggs.

I once met a black girl with a really short winter coat and thoughtlessly commented "Well, I can tell you're not from Finland!". Only after I said it I realized she probably gave those words a whole different interpretation than I had meant. I wanted to run after her and shout "Your coat! It's because you have a short coat and everyone here wears long ones! I'm not a racist I swear!!".

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: One Of The Crappy Pokemon That Nobody Likes on April 21, 2016, 02:59:38 am

Sometimes I wish that the world would suddenly be plagued by dragons, simply so I could drop everything and go on an epic quest. Cause then it would be more socially acceptable to sing "Kill the Dwagon" like Elmer Fudd does about Wabbits.

I once met a black girl with a really short winter coat and thoughtlessly commented "Well, I can tell you're not from Finland!". Only after I said it I realized she probably gave those words a whole different interpretation than I had meant. I wanted to run after her and shout "Your coat! It's because you have a short coat and everyone here wears long ones! I'm not a racist I swear!!".montrith, April 20, 2016, 10:17:05 pm

But that wouldn't be respecting the traditional Finnish hectare of personal space!

It's not as fun as I thought to ask what battle theme you transition into if you start humming the classic Final Fantasy bassline.

For me it's the GBA version of the FFI one. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP_vsiRZmpY)

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on April 24, 2016, 09:58:39 pm

Why are there two substantial systems of color-coding rarity of items in games nowadays? It seems to me like it's either White<Blue<Yellow<(purple sometimes?)<Orange or White<Green<Blue<Purple<(pink sometimes?)<Ochre

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: One Of The Crappy Pokemon That Nobody Likes on April 24, 2016, 10:13:19 pm

There should be a light-hearted super sentai show called The Adventures of Power Priest and Robo Rabbi, especially if religion is not mentioned even once in any episode.

Of all the people I meet during the day, none interests me as much as Pear Dude. He's this guy, about 60 or so I'd guess, who leaves the train on the same station I board it every morning. He always wears a red beret and scarf and a long, black leather coat, and every time he steps out of the train he has what appears to be an entire pear in his mouth. He's always in a hurry and half runs wherever he's going.

Where's he going? What does he do? Why doesn't he eat breakfast at home? These are the things that interest me.

Of all the people I meet during the day, none interests me as much as Pear Dude. He's this guy, about 60 or so I'd guess, who leaves the train on the same station I board it every morning. He always wears a red beret and scarf and a long, black leather coat, and every time he steps out of the train he has what appears to be an entire pear in his mouth. He's always in a hurry and half runs wherever he's going.

Where's he going? What does he do? Why doesn't he eat breakfast at home? These are the things that interest me.montrith, April 25, 2016, 10:25:19 pm

So here's something I just realized. You know the whole misongynistic "Meninism" thing? I just found out that that word, "Meninism," is just a crappy rip-off of "Feminism." For the longest time, I thought they were patterning their name on "Leninism," i.e. Marxism-Leninism. It's only a single letter difference!

Gentrification's started downtown and in Midtown, but yeah, a lot of the city will be in bad shape for quite a while.

(A Korean pop group filmed a music video in Detroit a few years ago to get that edgy post-apocalyptic feel for cheap -- and then cast all the black extras as rioters or criminals, and talked in interviews about how ~scary~ it was, because of course they would. Sigh.)

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on April 26, 2016, 11:22:30 am

Yeah, I watched some documentaries about the decay of the automotive industry in the US and Detroit just has a huge area and not enough people to fill it anymore so there's bound to be tons of abandoned shit

Of all the people I meet during the day, none interests me as much as Pear Dude. He's this guy, about 60 or so I'd guess, who leaves the train on the same station I board it every morning. He always wears a red beret and scarf and a long, black leather coat, and every time he steps out of the train he has what appears to be an entire pear in his mouth. He's always in a hurry and half runs wherever he's going.

Where's he going? What does he do? Why doesn't he eat breakfast at home? These are the things that interest me.montrith, April 25, 2016, 10:25:19 pm

you should go ask him a lot of questions while he has the pear in his mouth. purely to make him as uncomfortable as possible.

Yeah, I watched some documentaries about the decay of the automotive industry in the US and Detroit just has a huge area and not enough people to fill it anymore so there's bound to be tons of abandoned shitA Meat, April 26, 2016, 11:22:30 am

It's not all that bad. I don't live there, but I've visited plenty of times. A lot of rust belt cities in the US (Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati, east/east-midwestern steel towns) are attracting millennials and new companies in droves because of their dirt-cheap cost of living and real estate. As a lifelong denizen of the rust belt, I kind of love it here, even though I felt a strong urge to leave up until I got a job in the opposite corner of the state from which I grew up. I also feel a fierce pride in the region, despite having little to defend. I know a lot of other people from the area feel the same way.

It's really cute seeing my friends from other parts of the country (especially, like, California) settle down in the rust belt and absolutely love it and never want to leave. My friends were recently charmed by an arcade in Pittsburgh called "Games 'n 'at" which, at 5 PM, dismissed all children and started carding everyone.

Nif's rules for life:#0001It is completely acceptable to ignore any and all Left Turn Only signs, but only if you make a sound like Curly from the Three Stooges when you turn successfully.Source: Nif's Dad.Revised: 4/27/16Notes: WOOOOOOOOOWOOPWOOPWOOPWOOP

Is there a female equivalent for "manchild"? "Womanchild" just doesn't have the same ring to it and I've found myself searching for the right word a couple times while describing women that are still obsessed with Disney and Hello Kitty well into adulthood.

Is there a female equivalent for "manchild"? "Womanchild" just doesn't have the same ring to it and I've found myself searching for the right word a couple times while describing women that are still obsessed with Disney and Hello Kitty well into adulthood.Digital Walnut, April 27, 2016, 02:55:18 pm

Is there a female equivalent for "manchild"? "Womanchild" just doesn't have the same ring to it and I've found myself searching for the right word a couple times while describing women that are still obsessed with Disney and Hello Kitty well into adulthood.Digital Walnut, April 27, 2016, 02:55:18 pm

"A nightmare." That may just be my personal experience. Also, that isn't gender specific.

Is there a female equivalent for "manchild"? "Womanchild" just doesn't have the same ring to it and I've found myself searching for the right word a couple times while describing women that are still obsessed with Disney and Hello Kitty well into adulthood.Digital Walnut, April 27, 2016, 02:55:18 pm

You could call them girls rather than women. Is that too much? There's not really any "haha he said legbeard" element to take the edge off. You be the judge.

Is there a female equivalent for "manchild"? "Womanchild" just doesn't have the same ring to it and I've found myself searching for the right word a couple times while describing women that are still obsessed with Disney and Hello Kitty well into adulthood.Digital Walnut, April 27, 2016, 02:55:18 pm

That they are, but "nightmare" is a pretty broad term. I guess I'm not really looking for something gender specific, but it would be nice if there was a blanket shorthand term for a person who has failed to develop socially beyond their childhood/teenage years.

The person who inspired this conversation is someone I used to be in a board game group with that I have mostly ignored in my Facebook feed for years. She recently moved to southern California and bought an annual passport for Disneyland. Now I see things like this on a regular basis:(http://redwoodcoastfilm.com/pix/womanchild.jpg)

As a WDW geek, I don't understand why someone would do this. Wouldn't you get bored? There's like, nothing to do there.Gosh, I really love Disney World.(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/61/68/55/61685580a74d1e3785b8a0f5011b0767.jpg)

Is there a female equivalent for "manchild"? "Womanchild" just doesn't have the same ring to it and I've found myself searching for the right word a couple times while describing women that are still obsessed with Disney and Hello Kitty well into adulthood.Digital Walnut, April 27, 2016, 02:55:18 pm

I usually just go with "lokiwives". Female nerdassery tends to take somewhat different forms from male nerdassery in my experience.

Update on Pear Dude: Today he had his coat open and I saw that he was also wearing a red turtleneck with mustard colored pants. Pear was mostly eaten by the time he got off.

Is there a female equivalent for "manchild"? "Womanchild" just doesn't have the same ring to it and I've found myself searching for the right word a couple times while describing women that are still obsessed with Disney and Hello Kitty well into adulthood.Digital Walnut, April 27, 2016, 02:55:18 pm

I usually just go with "lokiwives". Female nerdassery tends to take somewhat different forms from male nerdassery in my experience.

Update on Pear Dude: Today he had his coat open and I saw that he was also wearing a red turtleneck with mustard colored pants. Pear was mostly eaten by the time he got off.montrith, April 28, 2016, 09:04:20 am

please regularly update us on Pear Dude, tia!

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: One Of The Crappy Pokemon That Nobody Likes on April 28, 2016, 08:54:32 pm

One of my go-to movies for background noise when I work is the Dawn of the Dead remake. I'm not really sure why that is. It's not that it's my favorite movie, or that it even does anything particularly great... well other than the effects, which doesn't account for much if I'm not looking at it. Maybe it's the lack of hope in the story that makes it useful for this purpose. It's hard to say.

The person who inspired this conversation is someone I used to be in a board game group with that I have mostly ignored in my Facebook feed for years. She recently moved to southern California and bought an annual passport for Disneyland. Now I see things like this on a regular basis:Digital Walnut, April 27, 2016, 11:56:17 pm

I live a quick drive from disneyland and this kind of thing is WAY too common here to hold it against any particular person. A good deal of men also do this, or at least invest a lot of time and money in visiting disney & other parks several times a year. At least once a year several senior male employees at my workplace take a day off to go to universal

I looked up this Dendi fellow from Zekka's storygame, found out he was a real guy and is "well known for his solo mid skills," and sat back in my chair and was... just really confused.He's also really normiecute for a guy who spends a lot of time playing video games. Also PewDiePie is, like, hot, if you're into surfer bros, which is really unacceptable for some asshole who makes millions of dollars by being on the internet.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on May 02, 2016, 12:16:38 pm

Today I went to McDonald's for the first time in a long while, and I asked for a medium portion of fries, and got a confused cashier. She explained, the sizes you can get are 'normal', 'large' and 'huge', creating a weird dilemma, where the medium size is actually large and what would be a medium sized portion is the smallest one you can get.

I looked up this Dendi fellow from Zekka's storygame, found out he was a real guy and is "well known for his solo mid skills," and sat back in my chair and was... just really confused.He's also really normiecute for a guy who spends a lot of time playing video games. Also PewDiePie is, like, hot, if you're into surfer bros, which is really unacceptable for some asshole who makes millions of dollars by being on the internet.Nifty Nif, May 02, 2016, 11:54:02 am

A lot of that stuff comes from injokes involving my ex. Here's a link to something very similar I created a long time ago for her birthday (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7567446/important_media/dendi.exe). It's less coherent and more memey so I'm not super proud of it.

(fyi, the command to open a file is `type` -- not `cat` -- I don't remember why I did that.)

Apparently at some point in my referral to a neurosurgeon here in Melbourne, my last name got misspelled with an N instead of an R. At this point I'm not sure how to correct it, or even if it's worth the trouble to, since while it's spread among three different systems it's all internally consistent, and I might be changing my name in a year or two anyway.

There's also sort of a silent question of how long it's going to go. Every time I have to deal with any of the people who have my name misspelled, I show one or two pieces of ID that clearly have my name spelled correctly. Eventually someone's going to notice that the name in their system is wrong, right?

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on May 03, 2016, 02:10:00 am

Apparently at some point in my referral to a neurosurgeon here in Melbourne, my last name got misspelled with an N instead of an R. At this point I'm not sure how to correct it, or even if it's worth the trouble to, since while it's spread among three different systems it's all internally consistent, and I might be changing my name in a year or two anyway.

There's also sort of a silent question of how long it's going to go. Every time I have to deal with any of the people who have my name misspelled, I show one or two pieces of ID that clearly have my name spelled correctly. Eventually someone's going to notice that the name in their system is wrong, right?Cleretic, May 03, 2016, 01:58:48 am

As someone whose name is spelled incorrectly all the time, the answer is a resounding no. You gotta correct them if you want it right. an 'm' in my last name is changed to an 'n' like half of the time, and they never notice it unless I say something.

No to mention names being mispronounced, that's inevitable.

Speaking of last names, people on both sides of my family spell their last names in varying ways in English, creating unnecessary confusion. Anglicizing slavic last names can be tough, but be consistent please.

Apparently at some point in my referral to a neurosurgeon here in Melbourne, my last name got misspelled with an N instead of an R. At this point I'm not sure how to correct it, or even if it's worth the trouble to, since while it's spread among three different systems it's all internally consistent, and I might be changing my name in a year or two anyway.

There's also sort of a silent question of how long it's going to go. Every time I have to deal with any of the people who have my name misspelled, I show one or two pieces of ID that clearly have my name spelled correctly. Eventually someone's going to notice that the name in their system is wrong, right?Cleretic, May 03, 2016, 01:58:48 am

Heck no they won't! You gotta cross it off on their sheet, make a big deal out of it, and stand over them while you watch them correct it. My bf is a "two first names" kind of guy (second one I've dated, coincidentally, something about these east-coast prep-school types), in that he has a last name that sounds like a first name, so his names get swapped on medical records constantly. It doesn't get fixed unless you make a thing about it.(The first guy I dated with two first names has 'em perma-backwards on his info that's tied to his DCI number, so every time he goes to play MtG his name gets called backwards. Ha ha. Fuck that guy.)

I'm wearing this trendy skirt that's got a space print on it. Now that I'm looking even closer at it, it has SPACE KITTIES and SPACE UNICORNS on it. Life is good.

A man who's been a sitcom punchline for my entire life is now one of the major parties' candidates for president. What the shit is happening.Not Always Sherman Tank, May 04, 2016, 03:02:59 am

On the upside, it's the last dying throes of a party that has no principles left but bigotry and hatred. Trump winning the primaries isn't so much a victory for him as it is just proof that nobody left in the Republican party has any fucking clue how to be appealing to voters or how to effectively debate other people.

The downside is that as shitty as Trump is at this, he can still theoretically win. Ball's in your court, America: don't fuck this up.

Today I walked out to my yard to see a woodpecker landing on a concrete utility pole. He spent the next 3 minutes circling on it, enthusiastically pecking the concrete for insects. I think halfway through he realized what an idiot he was, but still kept up the show for a while longer not to lose face in front of me. He appeared disinterested and flew away at last. Sure woodpecker, sure. I saw what you did. You moron.

As a WDW geek, I don't understand why someone would do this. Wouldn't you get bored? There's like, nothing to do there.Gosh, I really love Disney World.(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/61/68/55/61685580a74d1e3785b8a0f5011b0767.jpg)Nifty Nif, April 28, 2016, 08:42:14 am

My wife's aunt, whose last name is Snowwhite (no shit) goes to Disney World like 2-3 times a year.

As a WDW geek, I don't understand why someone would do this. Wouldn't you get bored? There's like, nothing to do there.Gosh, I really love Disney World.(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/61/68/55/61685580a74d1e3785b8a0f5011b0767.jpg)Nifty Nif, April 28, 2016, 08:42:14 am

My wife's aunt, whose last name is Snowwhite (no shit) goes to Disney World like 2-3 times a year.Turkeyvolumeguessing, May 04, 2016, 06:15:00 am

That is the fucking bomb. My parents, instead of empty nesting, are doing that now, but they're starting to go on Disney Cruises and doing the Food and Wine week thing rather than the 8-day see-every-park-twice family vacation experience.

The last time I went, I tried to do a Magic Kingdom one-day itinerary. Not one that is optimized for the best experience, but one that is optimized so you have the best chance of seeing everything, literally everything, in the park in one full day, from opening ceremonies to fireworks. At the time, this was 60ish attractions. A few were closed, so I think I had 50-some to work with. I got through 38 rides and attractions in 12 hours before ragequitting. I could have kept going because the park hadn't closed yet, but I was toast. I didn't take breaks for food, and I intentionally skipped "It's a Small World" because I knew I couldn't 100% complete it anyway. It was a harrowing day, but I also got to see attractions that I hadn't seen since my first visit in 1996. I will probably try again someday.

Park itinerary optimization is also a super interesting problem to tinker with if you like theme parks!I have recurring dreams about theme parks and have had them since my youth. I wonder what it means? Probably that I like theme parks.

The downside is that as shitty as Trump is at this, he can still theoretically win. Ball's in your court, America: don't fuck this up.Cleretic, May 04, 2016, 03:31:17 am

If it makes you feel any better, one of the major reasons establishment Republicans have been rallying against Trump is because they know that he has absolutely no appeal amongst undecided and swing voters. In essence, a primary-election victory for Trump is a general-election victory for the Democratic candidate, whoever that may be, and the Republican old guard knows it.

In a twist of irony, one of the reasons Republicans grew so complacent post-2000 election is because their core voting bloc of angry old white people is not only firmly loyal to them but also has historically high voting turnout. Now, that same bloc's loyalty is being used against them, because as big as it is, it's not big enough to singlehandedly give the win to a blowhard gaffe machine who pointedly alienates anybody he's not directly pandering to.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: One Of The Crappy Pokemon That Nobody Likes on May 04, 2016, 05:54:55 pm

"What Am I Gonna Do With All These Assholes?" would be the perfect title for two very different books.

I looked up this Dendi fellow from Zekka's storygame, found out he was a real guy and is "well known for his solo mid skills," and sat back in my chair and was... just really confused.He's also really normiecute for a guy who spends a lot of time playing video games. Also PewDiePie is, like, hot, if you're into surfer bros, which is really unacceptable for some asshole who makes millions of dollars by being on the internet.Nifty Nif, May 02, 2016, 11:54:02 am

I've noticed that it's the shittist (popular) lets players that are the hottest, and the better they get, the more 'meh' looking they are.

Except, of course, for this beautiful angel:(http://40.media.tumblr.com/619fa420a0fc00edb9118798701fd478/tumblr_inline_nwwg8q7ubO1r2rg90_500.jpg)

"What Am I Gonna Do With All These Assholes?" would be the perfect title for two very different books.One Of The Crappy Pokemon That Nobody Likes, May 04, 2016, 05:54:55 pm

One's about rude employees and the other one's about a herd of scared donkeys making off so fast they leave cartoon, ass-shaped holes in your walls, threatening the structural stability of your house? I've got it right, correct?

I looked up this Dendi fellow from Zekka's storygame, found out he was a real guy and is "well known for his solo mid skills," and sat back in my chair and was... just really confused.He's also really normiecute for a guy who spends a lot of time playing video games. Also PewDiePie is, like, hot, if you're into surfer bros, which is really unacceptable for some asshole who makes millions of dollars by being on the internet.Nifty Nif, May 02, 2016, 11:54:02 am

I've noticed that it's the shittist (popular) lets players that are the hottest, and the better they get, the more 'meh' looking they are.

Except, of course, for this beautiful angel:(http://40.media.tumblr.com/619fa420a0fc00edb9118798701fd478/tumblr_inline_nwwg8q7ubO1r2rg90_500.jpg)eldritchhat, May 04, 2016, 06:53:30 pm

Famous statistician Nate Silver has been dismissive of Donald Trump for more than a year, even as the campaign gained momentum, and he'd been proven wrong over and over. It's been pissing me off, but look, I was wrong, just like Nate. (http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-republican-voters-decided-on-trump/)

Famous statistician Nate Silver has been dismissive of Donald Trump for more than a year, even as the campaign gained momentum, and he'd been proven wrong over and over. It's been pissing me off, but look, I was wrong, just like Nate. (http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-republican-voters-decided-on-trump/)Bodark, May 04, 2016, 07:37:13 pm

Don't get mad at somebody for not wanting to accept that they live in the universe where Donald Trump can be a serious contender for the single most powerful political office on the face of the planet. (http://www.theonion.com/article/will-be-end-trumps-campaign-says-increasingly-nerv-52002)

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on May 04, 2016, 08:16:04 pm

Why are all the candidates left now so goddamn old? I'd say I'm kind of worried for their health, having such a stressful job at that age but Trump deserves no compassion

I want to get better at art but I'm both lazy and full of performance anxiety.

Fuck.

I'd like to cultivate a habit of just drawing a lot for fun (and I do doodle sometimes already, but usually just while I'm waiting for other things to happen so not much effort goes into it). Maybe I should put things like "have a more solid grasp of anatomy" on the back-burner and find my way back into actually drawing rather than just talking about drawing.

I want to get better at art but I'm both lazy and full of performance anxiety.

Fuck.

I'd like to cultivate a habit of just drawing a lot for fun (and I do doodle sometimes already, but usually just while I'm waiting for other things to happen so not much effort goes into it). Maybe I should put things like "have a more solid grasp of anatomy" on the back-burner and find my way back into actually drawing rather than just talking about drawing.Gyro, May 07, 2016, 03:46:46 pm

colouring books are good for this b/c they're semi-structured but not daunting enough to be anxious about (there's always another page).

I think they do! Or they dream about something...We asked our vet why our cat seems to be such an active sleeper. He twitches and makes noise often. The vet said that he is just having a dream about something. He's not an outdoor cat, so his options for dreaming are pretty limited. He also snores, which is adorable.

Today I watched a small child spill cheerios onto the floor of a public space and attempt to eat them. He managed to get three in his mouth before his mother arrived on the scene and put a stop to it.

I said, "No, this going to be great for his microbiome." I was about to tell her about the hygiene hypothesis, but then I realized that my opinion was about as welcome as a man knocking on your door to tell you about Jesus.

But I was rooting for that kid. I really wanted him to get that fourth cheerio.

My perfectionism when it comes to getting dressed makes it hard to get to work on time in the morning and I still don't look good!I have to plan outfits the night before and probably do my laundry or something.

My perfectionism when it comes to getting dressed makes it hard to get to work on time in the morning and I still don't look good!I have to plan outfits the night before and probably do my laundry or something.Nifty Nif, May 11, 2016, 08:41:16 am

I have one black pair of work pants I wear every working day and wash every Sunday. The zipper broke some time ago, so I just sew it shut and now I just hold my tummy every time I slip into them.

My perfectionism when it comes to getting dressed makes it hard to get to work on time in the morning and I still don't look good!I have to plan outfits the night before and probably do my laundry or something.Nifty Nif, May 11, 2016, 08:41:16 am

I have one black pair of work pants I wear every working day and wash every Sunday. The zipper broke some time ago, so I just sew it shut and now I just hold my tummy every time I slip into them.montrith, May 11, 2016, 01:40:31 pm

I actually have some black work slacks that I'm trying to get rid of. Not sure if you're interested, but they're a US women's 8 (UK 12). I could send them your way if you like!

I have so much crap in my house and I need to get rid of it. Some of it is so weird that I don't know what I can do with it other than sell it on eBay (high-quality, completely unused wig wefts in exciting colors?! Custom-printed fabric?), but I'd really like to consolidate. Selling on eBay is stressful, though, because capricious buyers are terrifying and almost nobody leaves feedback. Ballpit garage sale/swap meet thread?

I want to produce a video game porno parody called "This Ain't XXX-Come". The final scene would be a guy shooting a load into a girl's mouth at point blank range but missing completely even though she's only in half-bedcover.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on May 16, 2016, 11:40:38 am

Too many cities/neighborhoods in Israel have really dumb names when you think about what they mean, or when you try and translate them into English. My favorite of which is Bat Yam, which translates literally as "Sea Daughter", which is the Hebrew name for mermaid

I have so much crap in my house and I need to get rid of it. Some of it is so weird that I don't know what I can do with it other than sell it on eBay (high-quality, completely unused wig wefts in exciting colors?! Custom-printed fabric?), but I'd really like to consolidate. Selling on eBay is stressful, though, because capricious buyers are terrifying and almost nobody leaves feedback. Ballpit garage sale/swap meet thread?Nifty Nif, May 11, 2016, 02:04:49 pm

I might be interested in those wigs and wig-storage options!

Sudden realization: the downside to doing a "I don't x thing, goodbye!" joke on this forum is that posting that results in the thread always showing up in your "replies" thread list. So you may be saying goodbye, but you sure as hell ain't leaving. Welcome to the Hotel Ballp.it.

Sudden realization: the downside to doing a "I don't x thing, goodbye!" joke on this forum is that posting that results in the thread always showing up in your "replies" thread list. So you may be saying goodbye, but you sure as hell ain't leaving. Welcome to the Hotel Ballp.it.Ashto, May 16, 2016, 11:53:45 am

I have so much crap in my house and I need to get rid of it. Some of it is so weird that I don't know what I can do with it other than sell it on eBay (high-quality, completely unused wig wefts in exciting colors?! Custom-printed fabric?), but I'd really like to consolidate. Selling on eBay is stressful, though, because capricious buyers are terrifying and almost nobody leaves feedback. Ballpit garage sale/swap meet thread?Nifty Nif, May 11, 2016, 02:04:49 pm

tada! All except the brown wig + ponytails on the far right are available. I am unfortunately light on storage options. :( That is why some must go. The wig in the bottom left corner I bought only because it was very on sale (being discontinued by manufacturer) and I was going to straighten it for a cheap halloween costume that never ended up happening.

here's something pointless: it's important to me, as an adult that's determined to be weird/~alternative~/insufferable/a horrible millennial, to also be responsible and have integrity and communicate my ideas well, and I don't know if I do these things all the time, but it's something I want to work on.

here's something pointless: it's important to me, as an adult that's determined to be weird/~alternative~/insufferable/a horrible millennial, to also be responsible and have integrity and communicate my ideas well, and I don't know if I do these things all the time, but it's something I want to work on.Nifty Nif, May 21, 2016, 01:46:16 pm

Sometimes I try to write a post on Ballp.it and I give up and close the tab because I can't communicate my ideas well enough. The ones you see are me having given up on giving up.

Oh man, I can relate! I've actually had people start conversations with me because they hear me sneeze and can't believe that a tiny short girl sneezes like a loud dad.

And Nifty Nif! I can't really tell--is the wig in the second row to the far left light blonde or white? I'm looking for a short white wig, so if that's what color it is I could take it off your hands!Positronic, May 21, 2016, 06:20:19 pm

Far left is a true white! The ones on the right are varying shades of blonde. They're all from Arda except for the dirty blonde one center-bottom-right, which is from Epic cosplay and is on the thin side.

I feel like I've passed the point in my life when I could have acceptably had fun with my appearance and look, and I kind of regret not having gone through regrettable phases where that went too far. It was literally only this year that I started buying clothes that aren't 't-shirts and cargo pants'. I'm still working towards buying nicer and more expressive clothes, and dying my hair is gonna happen sometime soon too. Probably a nice red.

On a completely unrelated note: I hate Linkin Park's In The End. Not because it's a bad song--it's actually pretty good for the genre--but because it's so inherently laughable that it invalidates any and all complaints about the times when it doesn't even matter how hard you tried and how far you got.

If you ever see Jed York, would you kindly punch him in the mouth for me?Jackalslapnasty's Sherman Tank, May 27, 2016, 03:21:24 pm

I have no intention of paying 40 bucks to go inside cosplay hell, as tempting as it is for the sheer masochism of it. They're just crawling all over the city, making it whiter and more anime.Vinny Possum, May 27, 2016, 04:11:27 pm

Bleh! Don't pay money for that. You can probably walk inside the convention center for free, and they'll only check your badge if you decide to go into panels or the dealer's room. Better yet, you can spectate from outside the convention center, where their noxious sweat will dissipate into the air.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on May 28, 2016, 03:04:04 am

If you ever see Jed York, would you kindly punch him in the mouth for me?Jackalslapnasty's Sherman Tank, May 27, 2016, 03:21:24 pm

I have no intention of paying 40 bucks to go inside cosplay hell, as tempting as it is for the sheer masochism of it. They're just crawling all over the city, making it whiter and more anime.Vinny Possum, May 27, 2016, 04:11:27 pm

Bleh! Don't pay money for that. You can probably walk inside the convention center for free, and they'll only check your badge if you decide to go into panels or the dealer's room. Better yet, you can spectate from outside the convention center, where their noxious sweat will dissipate into the air.Nifty Nif, May 27, 2016, 06:04:29 pm

I find nerd conventions to be a fun people-watching experience, and usually there's someone selling sci-fi and fantasy books so that's a plus, but if you have to pay to get in it's not worth it.

I fell asleep with my podcasts app on and I had a weird dream where I was in the middle of a mall yelling "YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, UGH---well...YEAH" and having to apologize because I had been listening to the F Plus.

I fell asleep with my podcasts app on and I had a weird dream where I was in the middle of a mall yelling "YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, UGH---well...YEAH" and having to apologize because I had been listening to the F Plus.Nifty Nif, June 01, 2016, 08:51:43 am

It's normal to sometimes dream about being Kumquatxop. It can even be fun.

I really like some Dragon Ball but there are so many subgenres it's hard to navigate. I can't stand the screamo stuff.Carbon, June 01, 2016, 11:14:32 am

You missed the opportunity to make a Dragon Ballad joke. Now it's gone forever.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on June 05, 2016, 03:57:25 pm

Sometimes, when I'm bored, I invent fake superheroes with really terrible superpowers and I imagine how that would work out. Syndactyly woman (who can fuse and unfuse her fingers and toes) and Whistle Dog (a dog that can whistle somewhat competently) try to stop Googly-eye Man, who can see out of googly eyes.

The office I work at is right next door to a kind of questionable investment group. The type that don't ever seem to do much of anything and you can't really tell how many people are working there, but most of the people you do see are just a bit too slick to be trustworthy.

They moved out yesterday, very abruptly; all their stuff just gone late that afternoon. It's probably completely innocent and they just moved offices, but with the stories my co-workers had about them it does feel weirdly shady, like we were just witnesses to some sort of organized crime setup packing up and vanishing into the night.

Mostly I just thought their secretary was cute, but now that they're gone there's a lot of 'now that I think about it' going on.

I reject Gritty Batman. Goofy Batman is the only acceptable Batman. Adam West Batman, Batman Forever, Batman: The Brave and the Bold (Aquaman should never not be voiced by John DiMaggio), and none of this Spoopy Batman nonsense. I know it's really caught on and people like it, but I'm over it. It's not my thing. Bring back Dingus Batman. At least give the man built-in nipples on his suit, for fuck's sake. He's a superhero and he doesn't even look like he's wearing underwear on purpose. What is this? What has this world come to?

I reject Gritty Batman. Goofy Batman is the only acceptable Batman. Adam West Batman, Batman Forever, Batman: The Brave and the Bold (Aquaman should never not be voiced by John DiMaggio), and none of this Spoopy Batman nonsense. I know it's really caught on and people like it, but I'm over it. It's not my thing. Bring back Dingus Batman. At least give the man built-in nipples on his suit, for fuck's sake. He's a superhero and he doesn't even look like he's wearing underwear on purpose. What is this? What has this world come to?Nifty Nif, June 08, 2016, 06:43:03 pm

Though I think that both gritty and goofy have their place, I really *really* want an Adam West version of the Rocksteady Arkham Asylum/City/Knight games, where every time you punch a henchman, there's a trumpet sting and a big "BIFF" pops out of them.

I reject Gritty Batman. Goofy Batman is the only acceptable Batman. Adam West Batman, Batman Forever, Batman: The Brave and the Bold (Aquaman should never not be voiced by John DiMaggio), and none of this Spoopy Batman nonsense. I know it's really caught on and people like it, but I'm over it. It's not my thing. Bring back Dingus Batman. At least give the man built-in nipples on his suit, for fuck's sake. He's a superhero and he doesn't even look like he's wearing underwear on purpose. What is this? What has this world come to?Nifty Nif, June 08, 2016, 06:43:03 pm

Though I think that both gritty and goofy have their place, I really *really* want an Adam West version of the Rocksteady Arkham Asylum/City/Knight games, where every time you punch a henchman, there's a trumpet sting and a big "BIFF" pops out of them.LancashireMcGee, June 08, 2016, 06:48:51 pm

Every time you open the gadget wheel it's just full of situationally useful stuff like Bat-Antidote and Shark Spray

I reject Gritty Batman. Goofy Batman is the only acceptable Batman. Adam West Batman, Batman Forever, Batman: The Brave and the Bold (Aquaman should never not be voiced by John DiMaggio), and none of this Spoopy Batman nonsense. I know it's really caught on and people like it, but I'm over it. It's not my thing. Bring back Dingus Batman. At least give the man built-in nipples on his suit, for fuck's sake. He's a superhero and he doesn't even look like he's wearing underwear on purpose. What is this? What has this world come to?Nifty Nif, June 08, 2016, 06:43:03 pm

Though I think that both gritty and goofy have their place, I really *really* want an Adam West version of the Rocksteady Arkham Asylum/City/Knight games, where every time you punch a henchman, there's a trumpet sting and a big "BIFF" pops out of them.LancashireMcGee, June 08, 2016, 06:48:51 pm

Every time you open the gadget wheel it's just full of situationally useful stuff like Bat-Antidote and Shark SprayAgentCoop, June 08, 2016, 06:50:52 pm

I reject Gritty Batman. Goofy Batman is the only acceptable Batman. Adam West Batman, Batman Forever, Batman: The Brave and the Bold (Aquaman should never not be voiced by John DiMaggio), and none of this Spoopy Batman nonsense. I know it's really caught on and people like it, but I'm over it. It's not my thing. Bring back Dingus Batman. At least give the man built-in nipples on his suit, for fuck's sake. He's a superhero and he doesn't even look like he's wearing underwear on purpose. What is this? What has this world come to?Nifty Nif, June 08, 2016, 06:43:03 pm

I actually marathoned every episode of original batman once while I was doing an insane project for the insane catering company i worked for.

the utter descent into madness that show went to paired up nicely with my sleep deprivation.

The internet says it's good to spread salt on your carpets and hardwood floors if you have fleas in your house. Apparently the salt dehydratates their tiny bodies and mummifies them.

I'm just wondering... if I use Himalayan salt will it still work? Wouldn't it just... completely improve their chi flow, remove all the toxins from their bodies and attune their chakras? Man, Himalayan salt can be a blessing, but it can also be a curse...

I really *really* want an Adam West version of the Rocksteady Arkham Asylum/City/Knight gamesLancashireMcGee, June 08, 2016, 06:48:51 pm

Well I really want a Frank West version of the Rocksteady Arkham Asylum/City/Knight games, where Alfred dies of dehydration because Batman forgot to fill up his water bowl and every facial expression Batman makes has to be verbally pronounced.

Sometimes when I go shopping I like to look at what the people in front of me me are buying and imagine what kind of party they're going to have. Another day there was this guy who bought 40 beers and two cartons of eggs.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on June 13, 2016, 02:45:03 pm

Can I ask for a refund if a vending machine gave me the wrong thing? Has anybody ever attempted this? I mean, I know it's not worth the effort, but I feel like there has to be a story about someone getting the wrong candy bar from a machine and somehow getting it refunded or replaced

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on June 16, 2016, 02:11:02 pm

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: One Of The Crappy Pokemon That Nobody Likes on June 16, 2016, 03:26:18 pm

Can I ask for a refund if a vending machine gave me the wrong thing? Has anybody ever attempted this? I mean, I know it's not worth the effort, but I feel like there has to be a story about someone getting the wrong candy bar from a machine and somehow getting it refunded or replacedA Meat, June 13, 2016, 02:45:03 pm

Depends on where it is. Usually if someone just goes to the building's front desk/wherever and asks politely, they can open up the machine and swap it out. It's such a little thing that it's not a big deal, especially if the place isn't very busy.

It's finally a consistent 90+ degrees where I'm at, so now I can sit outside and listen to Double Nickles all day. Are there any other albums that you good folks on ballp.it enjoy more when it's warm out?

It's finally a consistent 90+ degrees where I'm at, so now I can sit outside and listen to Double Nickles all day. Are there any other albums that you good folks on ballp.it enjoy more when it's warm out?AgentCoop, June 21, 2016, 02:22:00 pm

Ritchie Blackmore's R-A-I-N-B-O-W, Among the Living, Blood Mountain, Fear of the Dark, Battle Hymns, and Metal on Metal come to mind.

Every time we kill an annoying fly with a flyswatter, it is because it decided to land on some surface. Are we just erasing flies who land on surfaces from the gene pool? The only flies that are surviving are the ones constantly flying around. In attempting to stop their annoyance, are we just making them stronger and more annoying?

Why, yes, I did bulb all three of these replies, because they all made me laugh way too hard.memorylikeasieve, June 21, 2016, 07:24:00 pm

I bulb pretty much fucking everything because I'm easily amused.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on June 23, 2016, 10:51:15 am

Every time we kill an annoying fly with a flyswatter, it is because it decided to land on some surface. Are we just erasing flies who land on surfaces from the gene pool? The only flies that are surviving are the ones constantly flying around. In attempting to stop their annoyance, are we just making them stronger and more annoying?

Every time we kill an annoying fly with a flyswatter, it is because it decided to land on some surface. Are we just erasing flies who land on surfaces from the gene pool? The only flies that are surviving are the ones constantly flying around. In attempting to stop their annoyance, are we just making them stronger and more annoying?

Sometimes I like to tweet ideas for dumb rapper names that are funny to me (and usually only me) like Pizza Rolls Royce, Solo Bot Game, Spycee Punkin, etc. A few minutes ago I tweeted "My rapper name is Oh VERY Yung Chump" then switched tabs for a couple of minutes. I completely forgot about the tweet I had just made and when I looked back at twitter I laughed out loud because I was so caught off guard by how fucking stupid and terrible my twitter is

Every time I see the acronym 'CSA' for Community Share Agriculture, my mind always jumps to Confederate States of America, and I imagine Lee and Jackson delivering tomatoes and basil or whatever.LancashireMcGee, June 30, 2016, 11:55:59 am

I've noticed a number of similarities between the types of guys that are way too into cars and the types of guys that are into custom vape rigs. I'm now curious about how long it will be until there's a forum for guys who like to fuck their vape rigs.

I'm never sure if the people who respond to @dril think he's being serious or if they're also being ironic in their seemingly unironic replies.

What I'm saying is the prevalence of irony on the internet makes it a goddamn nightmare to understand anything anymore, so I feel more sympathy for people on Facebook taking the Onion at face value than I might have done five years ago.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on July 15, 2016, 10:56:13 am

I'm never sure if the people who respond to @dril think he's being serious or if they're also being ironic in their seemingly unironic replies.

What I'm saying is the prevalence of irony on the internet makes it a goddamn nightmare to understand anything anymore, so I feel more sympathy for people on Facebook taking the Onion at face value than I might have done five years ago.placeholder name, July 15, 2016, 10:40:34 am

I think they're usually trying to be funny and show that they're in on the joke. There was a lot of that when horse_ebooks was a thing

I'm never sure if the people who respond to @dril think he's being serious or if they're also being ironic in their seemingly unironic replies.

What I'm saying is the prevalence of irony on the internet makes it a goddamn nightmare to understand anything anymore, so I feel more sympathy for people on Facebook taking the Onion at face value than I might have done five years ago.placeholder name, July 15, 2016, 10:40:34 am

Irony on the internet is a game of being "in the know." Hints are usually about that signal to those looking for them. There is an argument to be made for humor, or a certain style of humor, to have some subtlety about it, some others achieve humor by trying to trick people. There becomes this culture of smugness about it though, in humor as well as politics and I've become less comfortable with it as of late (http://http:/www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberalism/).

I suppose that you could accuse the F+ of this kind of playing this kind of smug game, but that's just one of the good reasons we have the prime directive.

I'm having a hard time wrapping my brain around the word "pad" right now. Maybe I'm just drunk, but I'm having a really hard time placing what exactly a "pad" is. All I can get is that it is something wider and longer than it is thick. The word implies something soft to me, but the more I thing about it, the less that makes sense as we have things like launch pads and mouse pads that are definitely hard.

Please help I'm drunk and can't sleep because I'm thinking about pads.

For some reason I'm exposed to a lot of Home Depot advertisements. In all the recent ones they include this vague industry rhythm of clinking and clanking sounds in the last few seconds. Nothing gets me more pumped to tear down an oak tree with my bare hands.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on July 19, 2016, 06:55:24 am

No store in this country sells 6.35mm to 3.5mm Female to Male audio cables, I'm thinking of exchanging my microphone for a USB microphone just because I can't find a reliable adapter for it that lets me plug it into my computer

Fuck I'm an idiot, I can just remove my XLR to 6.35mm cable from my microphone and get an XLR to 3.5mm

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on July 21, 2016, 04:51:10 pm

A mattress in an indoor hammock is just a more difficult to make, more difficult to use, and less comfortable bed. There's no breeze to sway in or trees to look up at, yet you still have the chance to flip yourself in your sleep and fall and die, and in the first place you have to pull some custom carpentry to suspend the thing.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Is It Normal this Disgusting Giant Sherman Tank on July 21, 2016, 10:54:49 pm

There's a guy running for Washington state auditor whose last name is Sprung and I'm really disappointed that he doesn't have a slogan along the lines of "when you walk in with an itty-bitty waist to your local polling place, you vote Sprung"

(I'm sure you could do something better, change "itty-bitty waist" to something more relevant to the position of state auditor, but this idea isn't worth refining into anything legitimately clever, it's more about structure than content)

A mattress in an indoor hammock is just a more difficult to make, more difficult to use, and less comfortable bed. There's no breeze to sway in or trees to look up at, yet you still have the chance to flip yourself in your sleep and fall and die, and in the first place you have to pull some custom carpentry to suspend the thing.Carbon, July 21, 2016, 10:16:27 pm

Maybe a soft weave hammock with springs on the supports to provide a feeling of weightlessness?

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on July 22, 2016, 12:40:24 am

There's a guy running for Washington state auditor whose last name is Sprung and I'm really disappointed that he doesn't have a slogan along the lines of "when you walk in with an itty-bitty waist to your local polling place, you vote Sprung"

(I'm sure you could do something better, change "itty-bitty waist" to something more relevant to the position of state auditor, but this idea isn't worth refining into anything legitimately clever, it's more about structure than content)fruithag, July 22, 2016, 12:14:19 am

When Alex Jones inevitably dies of some cholesterol-related disease (because he is very fat), I bet a shitload of conspiracy theorists will flip the fuck out and call it an assassination.Gyro, July 24, 2016, 04:13:58 pm

Knowing Alex Jones, his Will is probably going to start with an itemized list of people to blame

Told a friend to stop posting nostalgic memes on Facebook because it made him seem like he wanted to crawl back into his mother's womb. Since then he has done nothing but like pictures of big booty'd black ladies which all end up showing up in my feed. I don't mind seeing these shameless selfie posts (some part of my male brain won't let me hide his likes) but I feel sorry for his fiance.

To me, one of the weirdest things about the internet is how hard it is to determine someone's age. Like, imagine living in a world where everyone looks like an adult and is treated like an adult, except that some people are secretly two middle schoolers in a trench coat, and most of the time nobody can tell the difference because a lot of the real adults act like middle schoolers anyway. That's kind of how it is. Someone could be a gross, shitty 40-year-old man talking about their very real divorce on Gaia Online, or they could be 14 years old and making it all up. You can make a pretty good guess as to which it is, but you'll never know for sure.

To me, one of the weirdest things about the internet is how hard it is to determine someone's age. Like, imagine living in a world where everyone looks like an adult and is treated like an adult, except that some people are secretly two middle schoolers in a trench coat, and most of the time nobody can tell the difference because a lot of the real adults act like middle schoolers anyway. That's kind of how it is. Someone could be a gross, shitty 40-year-old man talking about their very real divorce on Gaia Online, or they could be 14 years old and making it all up. You can make a pretty good guess as to which it is, but you'll never know for sure.McShrimpsky, July 27, 2016, 05:43:02 pm

What are you talking about, life is like this, you don't how many trench coats I've opened to discover a pre-teen with abnormally large head and hands standing on stilts in my job as a security officer.

I really like the nickelback video for gotta be somebody (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0VRj2uw9L0) because the absurd overacting and camera shaking and scale of the set make it look way, way heavier than it is, and then it's just some fucking nickelback song you couldn't possibly perform that way. It's a perfect picture of nickelback as a whole, of something that's way less exciting than it's pretending to be.

I've noticed that at some point I started unconsciously thinking of "looks like shit" as a positive thing to say. Like, I saw my coworker's car in the parking lot and they had just washed it and my immediate thought was "wow her car looks like shit" but meant like entirely in a positive way. I don't know when my brain decided to make this switch but I've noticed myself thinking it about a lot of things and I'm getting worried that someone is going to show me something and I'm going to blurt out "that looks like shit" before remembering that's not how most people use that phrase

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Is It Normal this Disgusting Giant Sherman Tank on July 29, 2016, 10:40:33 pm

I just had to explain a reference to NewsRadio to some kid on the internet. Goddamnit stop making me feel old.

Australia's public holidays are horribly unbalanced. There's a shitload in the first third or so of the year, to the point where there's sometimes a three-day work week around easter. But since then we've had one public holiday in June and the calendar's otherwise bare of them until the Christmas season.

There's the Melbourne Cup in there somewhere around September-October-ish, but that's only for one state.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on August 02, 2016, 03:53:24 pm

Hearthstone, by virtue of being a virtual card game, could totally avoid the issue of power creep that's so prevalent in CCGs, by adjusting older cards to prevent them from falling behind. Yet, they still release cards that are almost identical to older cards, only slightly better by one point of something, obsoleting the older card, and introducing a boring new card that serves the exact same purpose as the older card you could have just buffed to fit that niche

Hearthstone, by virtue of being a virtual card game, could totally avoid the issue of power creep that's so prevalent in CCGs, by adjusting older cards to prevent them from falling behind. Yet, they still release cards that are almost identical to older cards, only slightly better by one point of something, obsoleting the older card, and introducing a boring new card that serves the exact same purpose as the older card you could have just buffed to fit that nicheA Meat, August 02, 2016, 03:53:24 pm

Booster packs are still the hearthstone monetisation model, right? They can't have you using old cards rather than paying for new ones.

My little brother started using ballpit a couple weeks ago and I'm not sure if he knows this is me on here. I assume he must since my username is a reference to something we both like, and my icon is the same one I use on steam, and I've posted things in the pictures thread moments after showing them to him. I feel like there's no way he doesn't know this is me, but neither of us has addressed it so I'm just going to carry on saying things like "fuck" and "cummies" and "1.21 jizzawatts?!" and hope he doesn't tell our mom what I'm really like [freakout]

On the other hand. HEY IF YOU'RE READING THIS I BETTER NOT SEE YOU CUSS ON HERE OR I AM SO TELLING ON YOU

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Frank West on August 04, 2016, 10:13:26 am

My little brother started using ballpit a couple weeks ago and I'm not sure if he knows this is me on here. I assume he must since my username is a reference to something we both like, and my icon is the same one I use on steam, and I've posted things in the pictures thread moments after showing them to him. I feel like there's no way he doesn't know this is me, but neither of us has addressed it so I'm just going to carry on saying things like "fuck" and "cummies" and "1.21 jizzawatts?!" and hope he doesn't tell our mom what I'm really like [freakout]

On the other hand. HEY IF YOU'RE READING THIS I BETTER NOT SEE YOU CUSS ON HERE OR I AM SO TELLING ON YOUfruithag, August 03, 2016, 02:17:13 pm

okay sorry I won't swear again please don't tell mom I said a fuckword

My hair is getting pretty long and my bangs have been all in my face at work which sucks because I work in food service so I can't touch my hair/face which means I have to do an emoboy myspace hair flip every 30 seconds, which is not a great look. The other day I was thinking to myself "I wish there was something I could use to like... pin my bangs up and keep them out of my face." Then I realized -- get this -- that already exists! It's called a bobby pin and it was invented in 1899. But then I was like, unconsciously, "oh but that's a girl thing so nvm." Then I said "oops wait who gives a shit" and bought some bobby pins and HALLELUJAH this is so much better. Sometimes I forget how deeply ingrained the gender binary can be until I'm actively thinking about it.

I had thought of something really cool to post here while at work but when I got home I forgot about it. It was really great though, you guys should've been there, in my head, when I thought of it. Oh well. Goodbye!

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on August 26, 2016, 07:13:08 pm

It's 3 am and I just had the idea to somehow do some sort of atrocity tourism panel thing in the local nerd convention two months from now.

I wonder if I can find enough people who have been irreversibly fucked up by the internet like I have.

I mean, last year i went to a fan fiction writers panel and it was fascinating in a strange way

I'm unsure whether to use hitbox or twitch to stream video games to. It seems like more people use twitch so maybe it'd be better to use so I don't have to make friends sign up for something new just to watch and chat?

I'm unsure whether to use hitbox or twitch to stream video games to. It seems like more people use twitch so maybe it'd be better to use so I don't have to make friends sign up for something new just to watch and chat?jorty, August 31, 2016, 05:30:21 am

I'd say twitch. What I've been hearing (someone correct me if I'm wrong) is hitbox kind of started to catch on mainly because people were having some issue with twitch, but now people are going back to twitch because they fixed it. Everything I'm saying might be wrong

Shadow of Mordor could definitely use a better difficulty curve. What I do is a playstyle called IIRC hardcore permadeath? The idea is you only take the required story upgrades, no health/focus upgrades at all, never fast travel without advancing time, and if you die you delete the file and start over. Makes the game way more fun IMO, and having to often run away from fights rather than just throwing your infinite lives at the same Uruk captains until they die makes for a way more interesting narrative (with the add bonus of that sweet Nemesis dialog where they mock you for running away)fruithag, August 23, 2016, 07:16:37 pm

I'm unsure whether to use hitbox or twitch to stream video games to. It seems like more people use twitch so maybe it'd be better to use so I don't have to make friends sign up for something new just to watch and chat?jorty, August 31, 2016, 05:30:21 am

I'd say twitch. What I've been hearing (someone correct me if I'm wrong) is hitbox kind of started to catch on mainly because people were having some issue with twitch, but now people are going back to twitch because they fixed it. Everything I'm saying might be wrongfruithag, August 31, 2016, 08:23:37 am

I think when hitbox caught on is when twitch started muting VoDs to crack down on people streaming music, since they can't really do the youtube thing of just funnelling revenue back to the copyright holder. The system had a bunch of issues, like muting in half hour segments rather than specific instances, and false positives on game soundtracks and stock sounds, plus the predictable bunch of people getting pissy that they couldn't stream all the music they wanted. Hitbox didn't worry about that, and also tended to be a little more stable and more helpful, probably just because they didn't have huge streams pressing their servers and huge idiots pressing their support teams, so a lot of people (mostly smaller streamers, I think?) switched, or at least floated the idea of it. A lot came back when their viewers wouldn't obediently follow, and the system has improved a lot anyway.

I haven't used hitbox in a long time, but I've not had any issues with twitch lately, as someone who uses it near daily. Honestly I haven't heard anyone even mention hitbox in probably a year, did you have some particular reason for considering it beyond just checking out all the alternatives?

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on August 31, 2016, 11:14:34 am

I'm unsure whether to use hitbox or twitch to stream video games to. It seems like more people use twitch so maybe it'd be better to use so I don't have to make friends sign up for something new just to watch and chat?jorty, August 31, 2016, 05:30:21 am

From everything I've seen, beam.pro (http://beam.pro) is really great, very low latency, though it does have a weird gamification thing where you can 'level up' your account? I've never looked into that side of things too much, but it's a solid streaming platform.

I'm unsure whether to use hitbox or twitch to stream video games to. It seems like more people use twitch so maybe it'd be better to use so I don't have to make friends sign up for something new just to watch and chat?jorty, August 31, 2016, 05:30:21 am

From everything I've seen, beam.pro (http://beam.pro) is really great, very low latency, though it does have a weird gamification thing where you can 'level up' your account? I've never looked into that side of things too much, but it's a solid streaming platform.LancashireMcGee, August 31, 2016, 11:56:30 am

It looks nice but I'm not sure if it'd be good since I doubt many people have accounts there and I don't want them just to sign up for a dorky video game stream x:

Man the people who contribute to Designspiration.com need to calm down on the TnA. It's not to say that the womanly figure can't be artistic or even sexy in design, but the amount is a little eyebrow raising.

Hitbox is my preferred streaming site just ecause it seems more reliable to me and my shitty Australian internet. Give it a bit of time to buffer and it's smooth as hell, while I think GDQ's the only Twitch stream I've ever been able to watch without ridiculous lag spikes.

Maybe it's who I've watched on both platforms, but it's led me to far prefer Hitbox. That, and the fact darker screens and UIs are just better for watching things and I don't get why no video service I've seen realizes that but Hitbox and Netflix.

Technology is amazing. I was trying to remember the name of this song I liked in high school but all I could remember was that it had sort of a folky indie pop sound and when I listened to it on my iPod it showed something like this for the album art:

So I ran a reverse google image search for "indie folk" on that shitty recreation that I made in Paint and just scrolled down a bit and hey there it is, Hometowns by The Rural Alberta Advantage. We are living in the got damn FUTURE (this is the song I was thinking of, still great)

Being part of the religious left sucks because other believers call you a traitor for being a leftist, and other leftists think you're a fake because you're religious.Vinny Possum, September 09, 2016, 02:00:15 am

Being part of the religious left sucks because other believers call you a traitor for being a leftist, and other leftists think you're a fake because you're religious.Vinny Possum, September 09, 2016, 02:00:15 am

You're both traitors for not blindly believing in the non-god that we true liberals don't not believe in. You're false intellectuals for believing in something that's kind of reasonable if you actually consider it logically.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on September 09, 2016, 07:06:48 am

can we agree that the worst are the militant atheists who are somehow extreme right-wing assholes? basically the alt-right

can we agree that the worst are the militant atheists who are somehow extreme right-wing assholes? basically the alt-rightA Meat, September 09, 2016, 07:06:48 am

Yep! As a left-leaning atheist I'm embarrassed for these guys by association. Also Bill Maher, who isn't right-wing but is a fucking dick. Just, don't kick me out of the left wing, okay? I don't want to hang out with the libertarian atheists, they smell funny.

I'm kind-of surprised more Christians (in particular, don't know much about other belief systems) aren't economically left-leaning, considering the very hard-line approach to money and class that Jesus is said to have taken (freaking out at the moneylenders in the temple, saying that it's harder for a rich man to get into heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, hanging out with and healing the poor all the time, etc.) but whatever, history is weird.

I'm so tired of facebook that I'm thinking of signing up to diaspora and getting my small friend group to join me. The site is really focused on being decentralized and letting you own your own data. So I'm really worried that this is the first step towards becoming a Sov Cit libertarian Cucklord.

I'm kind-of surprised more Christians (in particular, don't know much about other belief systems) aren't economically left-leaning, considering the very hard-line approach to money and class that Jesus is said to have taken (freaking out at the moneylenders in the temple, saying that it's harder for a rich man to get into heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, hanging out with and healing the poor all the time, etc.) but whatever, history is weird.Gyro, September 09, 2016, 08:55:18 am

I'm not a Christian or a social conservative, but my dad and stepmother are. They are also very right-leaning economically. The general shape of their thought is that U.S. politics and government are a total disaster, and any money directed from taxes to fixing problems will always end up going to useless government workers and failed solutions. They're both into charity and doing their best to fix a broken world, but they also complain about taxes almost every time I see them.

When I go over to my parents' house Fox News is on the television, and in between commercial breaks my father tells me that he wants to make a ton of money so he can give all of it to the world's poorest people. They're voting for Trump this November.

I have a lot of strong opinions about this, but fundamentally my dad and stepmom are both good people who want to help others. They just have different ideas about how to create a better world.

I realized I've always had sort of unfounded subconscious ideas about the friendships among the members of Wu-Tang Clan and I thought it was stupid and funny so here we go. Here's my Wu-Tang headClanons. I will not be explaining my reasoning behind any of this because, for the most part, there isn't any.

The four closest friends of the group are Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Method Man, and ODB (RIP). There's a little friction between Meth and ODB but they're both friends with the best best friends of Wu-Tang, Raekwon and Ghostface, so they just have to deal.

Everyone in Wu-Tang likes Meth and ODB. How could you not?

RZA and GZA are kind of distant for the most part. If Wu-Tang was a class of high school students, RZA would be their coach and GZA would be their teacher. Everyone looks up to them but nobody is super close to them with two exceptions: Inspectah Deck, the star athlete who RZA loves, and Masta Killa, GZA's teacher's pet. To drag this stupid metaphor on even longer, Deck is popular and well-liked for being a cool sports dude, and Masta Killa is kind of a loner who only hangs out with the teacher. Nerd!!!

U-God is just kind of around. Nobody feels strongly about him one way or the other.

I realized I've always had sort of unfounded subconscious ideas about the friendships among the members of Wu-Tang Clan and I thought it was stupid and funny so here we go. Here's my Wu-Tang headClanons. I will not be explaining my reasoning behind any of this because, for the most part, there isn't any.

The four closest friends of the group are Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Method Man, and ODB (RIP). There's a little friction between Meth and ODB but they're both friends with the best best friends of Wu-Tang, Raekwon and Ghostface, so they just have to deal.

Everyone in Wu-Tang likes Meth and ODB. How could you not?

RZA and GZA are kind of distant for the most part. If Wu-Tang was a class of high school students, RZA would be their coach and GZA would be their teacher. Everyone looks up to them but nobody is super close to them with two exceptions: Inspectah Deck, the star athlete who RZA loves, and Masta Killa, GZA's teacher's pet. To drag this stupid metaphor on even longer, Deck is popular and well-liked for being a cool sports dude, and Masta Killa is kind of a loner who only hangs out with the teacher. Nerd!!!

U-God is just kind of around. Nobody feels strongly about him one way or the other.

My hair is ginger and curly, and when it gets long it tends to hold up a bit, like a saggy afro. When I was a small ginger child, people used to call me names, one of which was Carrot Top. I have known who Carrot Top is for probably at least a decade.

Given all these facts, I am slightly upset with myself that I only realised about an hour ago that people calling me Carrot Top was more than just a standard "haha, orange head" ginger joke.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on September 20, 2016, 02:24:28 pm

The new Die Antwoord album was a pretty major letdown from one of my favorite groups. I have a lot to say about it but I don't want to flood this thread with my bullshit opinions so I flooded tumblr with them instead (http://nerdcraps.tumblr.com/post/150846624186/review-die-antwoord-mount-ninji-and-da-nice)

What exactly the draw in those paparazzi photos of celebrities leaving their apartments or going to the gym? (A thought triggered by this photo of lady gaga (http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/cherubrawk/9666602/102397/102397_600.jpg)).

They're never going to be especially attractive pictures, so I don't think it's for weirdos to beat off to. They're rarely clues to interesting new fashion trends. They're not insights into these people's lives in the way that an invasive photo of them on a date would be. It's not "oh my god Lady Gaga is going to the recording studio, there's new music coming!"

The only people this is of any use to is other paparazzi and stalkers, who then know Lady Gaga is in New York and can be sure to go take photos they will inexplicably sell for silly amounts of money. All we learn is that a famous person went to sleep in a place last night.

For real, help me out here, what's up with this? Why are there so many photos of taylor swift getting in a car?

Each paparazzo is hunting for unstaged, 'real' photos they can sell to clips. They're usually in public places or whatever because that's when and where the paparazzi have access to celebs to take these photos of them. Some of it is style - here's what famous people wear when they're just trying to go about their day - and some of it is feeding a hunger for more information about peoples' favourite stars. The worst of it is designed to tear apart an 'official' representation of who someone is by catching them not wearing makeup, or in 'ugly' clothes, or kissing someone they're not supposed to kiss, etc, but this is the kind that's the most lucrative so it's also the most popular.

They're never going to be especially attractive pictures, so I don't think it's for weirdos to beat off to.

Getting a new hairdresser is probably the most awkward part of moving to live in another city, as well as one of the more awkward parts of gender transitioning. Handling both simultaneously didn't really alleviate problems.

Nor did the fact that the shopping district street near me has like six fucking hairdressers.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on October 03, 2016, 05:33:07 pm

If there ever will be a revival of De Stijl, will it be neo-neoplasticism?

I wish there was a really awesome app that let you decide where the poles on the earth are and what it's axial tilt would be, and that figured out all the climate and eco system differences and any geographical ones that might pop up.

I wish there was a really awesome app that let you decide where the poles on the earth are and what it's axial tilt would be, and that figured out all the climate and eco system differences and any geographical ones that might pop up.

You could pitch that as like, a fantasy world generator or something. Tweak the tilt/poles of Earth, maybe let them shape out the continents differently, generate a thing and give people their own personal not-Europe based geographically on Bizarro-Africa.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Is It Normal this Disgusting Giant Sherman Tank on October 05, 2016, 01:20:30 am

There's a website called VNDB, the Visual Novel Database, and it's absolutely ridiculous. You know how IMDB lets you search for movies based on titles, actors, directors, etc? Imagine if, in addition to that, you could also say "give me all the movies released in 1995, originally in Italian but with English subtitles, featuring male protagonists with long hair and at least one scene involving public urination." That's VNDB. Their tagging system goes so deep with subcategory after subcategory. Let's just look at some examples.

Heroine -> Non-human heroine -> Monster heroine -> Werewolf heroine

Romance -> Love triangle -> Comedic love triangle

What if you're not looking for a certain type of story, but a certain type of VN? What if you love it when the text is contained in a box at the bottom of the screen (ADV), but don't mind the occasional switch to a fullscreen text box (NVL) as long as it's not for the whole thing? No problem

Presentation -> Text -> ADV -> Brief NVL scenes

Now I know what you're thinking "this is all great, but there's one thing that always bugs me. I can't stand when the main character has no voice actor, but I also don't like having to listen to the main character talk all the time. If only

Jesus christ the sexual content tags get really specific and viscerally upsetting so I'm stopping here. It gets a lot worse. Anyway the whole point of this post is that the anime equivalent AniDB sucks and I wish it was more like VNDB

The more a person's worldview changes the more everything else stays the same.

I first noticed this when I was reading an objectivism forum. This was right after Bioshock came out, and I wanted to see what they thought of it. While I was doing this I read through some of the objectivism forum's other posts, and it turned out that a large section of their userbase consisted of ex-mormons. This seemed really strange to me. I mean, if you've just left an incredibly proscriptive religion then why would you follow that up with membership in one of the most proscriptive secular philosophies ever developed?

But this sort of thing is the norm. I also read philosophy of religion sometimes, and I pay special attention to anyone who has previously held one worldview and then switched sides. I figure people like that can see both perspectives, and their ideas will be worth learning about. And here too, the more a person's worldview changes the more it stays the same

Dan Barker was raised as a very conservative christian and eventually switched worldviews to atheism. Now he writes and performs the same kind of music he grew up with, except about atheism.

On the other side I'm currently reading Edward Feser's The Last Superstition. He started as an atheist philosopher and switched to a very conservative form of Catholicism. So I'm reading his book and all of a sudden:

"The same thing can be said of the New Atheists’ attitude toward the moral views defended by religious believers, including the traditional sexual morality so hated by secularists. That these views can only be regarded as superstitious, without rational foundation, motivated by bigotry, etc., is a familiar enough cliché, and the New Atheists have nothing to add to it – other than Richard Dawkins’s proposal to replace the Ten Commandments with a list that includes “Enjoy your own sex life (as long as it damages no one else).” Combine this with his proposal to replace religious instruction for children with something more progressive, and his weird outrage over the “hysteria” he thinks surrounds the treatment of pedophiles – his own boyhood victimization by a pedophile was, he kindly shares with us, “embarrassing but otherwise harmless” – and you get some truly creepy vibes about the direction in which secularist “values education” might go. (You can forget whatever Father Smith or Sister Mary taught you in parochial school, kids; Uncle Dick is here to tell you what it really means to love each other."

That's the most r/atheism thing that was never posted in r/atheism. Seriously, Feser just made fun of Dawkin's molestation, belittled his feelings on the event, misrepresented his views on pedophilia, and insinuated that Dawkins is himself a molester. The more a person's worldview changes the more everything else stays the same.

I had a conversation about left-wing superheroes last night, and I'm still not sure there are any besides Captain Planet, and if that's a matter of one not being present/visible or if that's just the nature of the genre.

Much of why Captain Planet is left-wing is because his opponents are industrialists and generally anti-environmentalist. If we extend that to others--that a superhero's philosophy is largely defined by their opponents--then we come to Superman, whose iconic opponent is a corporate heavyweight, and you combine that with the fact Superman is necessarily a pro-immigration story to come up with a pretty good case. ...But you still really can't dismiss the fact that Superman is, right down to his name, an Aryan ubermesch, so you can't really stand by him as one. And of course, his buddy Batman is fascist as hell.

The other obvious choice is the X-Men, given they are a civil rights allegory and are typically primarily fighting for acceptance. That's a solid pick, especially when you recall that Professor X was classically based on Martin Luther King. ...But then you take into account that their classic opponent is Magneto and the Brotherhood of Mutants, who are classically based on Malcolm X's side of the civil rights conflict, and it falls apart again. The X-Men are the proverbial Good Ones, the members of a minority that anti-progressives point at and say 'see they're not ALL bad' while simultaneously calling for suppression based on the actions of the proverbial Bad Ones. The Brotherhood are the ones actually getting angry and fighting for change and getting vilified for it (because there's no nice way to do that), while the X-Men are either just sitting and waiting for society to accept them or just accepting that they won't and being good to the rest of humanity anyway. Individual X-Men stories can be left-wing, for sure, but I think the group as a whole can't narratively break from that 'Good Minorities' mold enough to be a good example of left-wing superheroes.

Then I went back to my own attempts, the characters I RPed as on City of Heroes. Being based on me on some level, and me being pretty left-wing, I could possibly use them as a basis... but then I realized that the ones closest to me and that I mostly associated with were villains. The one I take my username from was tired of society valuing money and muscle over intelligent reasoning, and ultimately decided they could only fix those problems by breaking it and rebuilding; a smash-the-state Marxist from a different direction. Another was marked as a villain because they took swings at white-collar crime, and just rolled with the fact this made them an outlaw.

I still have no idea as to if an answer to 'what's a left-wing superhero' is cleanly possible.

I had a conversation about left-wing superheroes last night, and I'm still not sure there are any besides Captain Planet, and if that's a matter of one not being present/visible or if that's just the nature of the genre.

Much of why Captain Planet is left-wing is because his opponents are industrialists and generally anti-environmentalist. If we extend that to others--that a superhero's philosophy is largely defined by their opponents--then we come to Superman, whose iconic opponent is a corporate heavyweight, and you combine that with the fact Superman is necessarily a pro-immigration story to come up with a pretty good case. ...But you still really can't dismiss the fact that Superman is, right down to his name, an Aryan ubermesch, so you can't really stand by him as one. And of course, his buddy Batman is fascist as hell.

The other obvious choice is the X-Men, given they are a civil rights allegory and are typically primarily fighting for acceptance. That's a solid pick, especially when you recall that Professor X was classically based on Martin Luther King. ...But then you take into account that their classic opponent is Magneto and the Brotherhood of Mutants, who are classically based on Malcolm X's side of the civil rights conflict, and it falls apart again. The X-Men are the proverbial Good Ones, the members of a minority that anti-progressives point at and say 'see they're not ALL bad' while simultaneously calling for suppression based on the actions of the proverbial Bad Ones. The Brotherhood are the ones actually getting angry and fighting for change and getting vilified for it (because there's no nice way to do that), while the X-Men are either just sitting and waiting for society to accept them or just accepting that they won't and being good to the rest of humanity anyway. Individual X-Men stories can be left-wing, for sure, but I think the group as a whole can't narratively break from that 'Good Minorities' mold enough to be a good example of left-wing superheroes.

Then I went back to my own attempts, the characters I RPed as on City of Heroes. Being based on me on some level, and me being pretty left-wing, I could possibly use them as a basis... but then I realized that the ones closest to me and that I mostly associated with were villains. The one I take my username from was tired of society valuing money and muscle over intelligent reasoning, and ultimately decided they could only fix those problems by breaking it and rebuilding; a smash-the-state Marxist from a different direction. Another was marked as a villain because they took swings at white-collar crime, and just rolled with the fact this made them an outlaw.

Captain America is basically a capital-D new deal Democrat, if you think that counts. He's the son of a poor Irish immigrant family, born during the great depression, and created and written by a couple of jewish writers/artists as an appeal to the US to stand up to Hitler. There was actually going to be a bit in the 2012 Avengers where he talks about health care and social assistance in the modern world, but it ended up getting cut.

I had a conversation about left-wing superheroes last night, and I'm still not sure there are any besides Captain Planet, and if that's a matter of one not being present/visible or if that's just the nature of the genre.

Much of why Captain Planet is left-wing is because his opponents are industrialists and generally anti-environmentalist. If we extend that to others--that a superhero's philosophy is largely defined by their opponents--then we come to Superman, whose iconic opponent is a corporate heavyweight, and you combine that with the fact Superman is necessarily a pro-immigration story to come up with a pretty good case. ...But you still really can't dismiss the fact that Superman is, right down to his name, an Aryan ubermesch, so you can't really stand by him as one. And of course, his buddy Batman is fascist as hell.

The other obvious choice is the X-Men, given they are a civil rights allegory and are typically primarily fighting for acceptance. That's a solid pick, especially when you recall that Professor X was classically based on Martin Luther King. ...But then you take into account that their classic opponent is Magneto and the Brotherhood of Mutants, who are classically based on Malcolm X's side of the civil rights conflict, and it falls apart again. The X-Men are the proverbial Good Ones, the members of a minority that anti-progressives point at and say 'see they're not ALL bad' while simultaneously calling for suppression based on the actions of the proverbial Bad Ones. The Brotherhood are the ones actually getting angry and fighting for change and getting vilified for it (because there's no nice way to do that), while the X-Men are either just sitting and waiting for society to accept them or just accepting that they won't and being good to the rest of humanity anyway. Individual X-Men stories can be left-wing, for sure, but I think the group as a whole can't narratively break from that 'Good Minorities' mold enough to be a good example of left-wing superheroes.

Then I went back to my own attempts, the characters I RPed as on City of Heroes. Being based on me on some level, and me being pretty left-wing, I could possibly use them as a basis... but then I realized that the ones closest to me and that I mostly associated with were villains. The one I take my username from was tired of society valuing money and muscle over intelligent reasoning, and ultimately decided they could only fix those problems by breaking it and rebuilding; a smash-the-state Marxist from a different direction. Another was marked as a villain because they took swings at white-collar crime, and just rolled with the fact this made them an outlaw.

Ann Nocenti's run on Daredevil might qualify, although it's been awhile since I last read it

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Frank West on October 23, 2016, 11:56:15 am

Green Arrow is supposed to be explicitly a socialist, cause he's based on Robin Hood, see. How true this is is up to the writer, though. Sometimes he just talks a lot of shit, sometimes he's shown to be a liberal mayor who goes out of his way to help the poor. He's not a great example, though, because as a superhero his actions aren't generally very liberal.

The issue here is that vigilantism, and taking the law into your own hands, is more-or-less an inherently conservative act, and the way that superheroes typically portray it is doubly-so. The idea that some people are just inherently bad and will continue to be bad is very conservative, the idea that the best way to deal with problematic people is to continue to throw violence at them forever is fascist. Some of the better Batman stories acknowledge this: how much of a good guy is he really, is he causing some of the problems he's trying to solve by being violent, how different is he from the people he goes after, etc. etc.

I'd say, of the big name superheroes, the most actually liberal one I can think of is the Flash. Again, like with all superhero things, this all depends on who is doing the writing (and also which Flash it is, I guess.) When the Flash is written well, though, he's got an underlying belief in the humanity of his foes, and although he's always ready to solve the problem by punching it or running really fast around it, he almost always tries to help them or talk it out with them first. In various groups, Flash also tends to be the hero who stops the other heroes from going too far. This scene is (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJq2PAI-Fxc) maybe the most flash scene ever, but it's also, to me, expressing a pretty liberal way of how to deal with supervillains: by properly finding out what the underlying issue is (in this case: he has a mental disorder) and solving it (making him realize he needs help) and even working together with the villain to come to a solution (trusting him to turn himself in).

He's still using his powers to engage in actions typically reserved for state actors, and again, solving problems by punching dudes is an inherently conservative action, so it's not like he's a perfect liberal or anything, Still, Flash ends up doing it about as liberally as possible, probably as a result of him generally being written to fill a lighthearted tone in comparison to other heroes.

What are you looking for in a superhero to make them left/right wing? The format (also the business model and target audience) doesn't really create huge amounts of space for evangelising in either direction. Especially in the comic book format, which isn't remotely information-dense, there's a pretty limited amount you can do.

People writing whole books, films and TV shows devoted to political issues have trouble. When you're levering that into a story that's got to be 50% fight scene, there's no chance. Honestly, it's probably better that way. I don't think it's possible to put these important, but not exciting, social issues into a big Hollywood spectacle without it just ending up incredibly clumsy at best and insulting/offensive at worst. For what it's worth, I do think the X-Men deserve credit as at least attempting to be a left-leaning group, even if they are a bit clumsily presented. Regardless of their origins, I don't think they should be cast out for presenting the problematic elements of minorities and integration.

There's a long way to go still, but I also think it's important to acknowledge there are improvements, at least in conception if not in story writing. I can't speak for DC, since I've never really gotten into any of their characters, but there is a black Spiderman and Ms Marvel is a young muslim woman. The MCU has War Machine, Falcon and Black Panther so it's no longer a big old party of white dudes. A lot of the worst example of Liefeldian-style anatomy is in the past, and I do think comics are, at least slightly, less ridiculous about boobs and butts and (the lack of) everything in between, as well as the outfits covering it.

tl;dr I do think superhero concepts are, on the whole, attempting improvement, with some success. Beyond the general idea of vigilantism, I don't really see any of the actual characters and storylines as leaning much in either direction, and while it needs to be discussed somewhere, I'm not sure superheroes make particularly good background for political discourse within the writing.

I'm talking more ideologically, and usually more subtext than anything. I mean, consider Batman; for all the good he may or may not do, his approach to things is heavily vigilante and might-makes-right, often with a bit of police state methodology in there too depending on the story (many of the Batman movies made a thing of this, particularly Nolan's). On top of that recall that many of the Gotham rogues gallery consists of mental patients, and I think we can agree that Bruce Wayne probably votes Republican. Iron Man has much the same stuff going on, only to a slightly lesser degree. I can agree that generally comics are getting more progressive, but the debate that night was specifically more on policy and ideology of individual characters, not about the medium as a whole aside from the assertion that the inherent vigilanteism of the superhero genre starts it off in that particular political realm.

I like Frank West's suggestion of The Flash, though. I'm not as familiar with him as I am with some others, but what I do recall about him is his ability and willingness to use his powers in very constructive, helpful and non-violent ways that suggest he's both willing and able to think like that. The worst I know of him doing is turning Central City into a police state in Kingdom Come by infinitely patrolling at top speed, but even that isn't that bad, especially given what else happened in Kingdom Come. Conceptually he's very politically agnostic (especially compared to certain other members of the League), but as deeds and demeanor go he's pretty solid as a pick.

Spider-Man could possibly be a good choice too for a lot of the same metrics, but I know even less about his stuff (and what I do know doesn't help; I don't think the act of giving birth to yourself fits on the political spectrum).

Spider-Man could possibly be a good choice too for a lot of the same metrics, but I know even less about his stuff (and what I do know doesn't help; I don't think the act of giving birth to yourself fits on the political spectrum).Cleretic, October 24, 2016, 02:19:16 am

I do know quite a bit about Spider-man and I can make the case for him as a liberal superhero. Peter Parker as Spider-Man in particular started out as a decidedly liberal superhero before J. Michael Straczynski (JMS) took on the character. Before JMS came along Spider-man was a character with scientific basis for his powers and a scientific background. Problems would arise that appeared to be magical in nature and he would reveal their humble scientific origins then defeat them using science. Superstitious New Yorkers at large might hear about a monster in the sewers or a goblin flying around Queens but Spider-man was brave enough to go out and reveal a madman in a mask or a scientific experiment gone wrong. He would then invariably get his butt kicked, go back to his lab and cook up some solution using science.

Spider-man runs counter to the usual binary morality and conservative vigilantism. Most of his rogues gallery start out as regular people. Some may have a grievance or character flaw, but most are not characteristically evil, most of them are just regular, good people before something happens to them, mostly outside their control and they do what they think is necessary to put things right. Spider-man believes it is his responsibility to help these "villains" by removing or dealing with the catalyst behind the criminal behavior then he makes sure they can be rehabilitated. The most important thing being that most of them can be rehabilitated.

The best examples of Spider-man's attitude towards morality and criminal behavior are Sandman and Venom. In Spider-man's encounters with Sandman he learns of his troubled past and works with Sandman to set things right. Thus Spider-man's faith in humanity is rewarded. Venom on the other hand is manipulated by an alien entity and despite his best efforts is unable to let go of his desire for power and/or revenge. Thus Spider-man's faith is betrayed.

JMS however came along and fucked all that shit up by making Spider-man magical and giving him metaphysical villains. Suddenly Spider-man was a metaphysical solution for what was often a scientific problem in his old rogues gallery. So Spider-man didn't just use his faith to guide him towards the correct solution but faith was all he needed to be successful i.e. if he believed in the Spider God hard enough he could escape an impossible situation.

Overall DC definitely leans more to the right while Marvel leans more to the left, politically speaking. There are a few stand outs here and there but this mostly is due to the creators behind the characters and the company having differing views of the world. However individual characters will vacillate politically depending who writes them and due to influence of the editorial staff. So when you break out a particular hero you have to take a story arc, look at who is writing and or drawing it and determine what they are trying to communicate, or are exhibiting unintentionally, using the template of the character. For example Green Arrow was created by the cynical and conservative editorial staff of DC as a stand in for Batman, but he was re-imagined as a bleeding heart liberal in the 1960s by Dennis O'Neil.

TLDR Spider-man has a background in science and believes in criminal rehabilitation so there's a lot for a left leaning reader to latch onto (if you ignore JMS's run as writer). However most characters evolve due to changing creative and editorial staff. So take the perceived political leanings of characters with a grain of salt, because back in the swingin 60's even batman was portrayed like a bleeding heart liberal.

I'm watching a youtube video and the first seven videos in the sidebar are all "recommended for you" stuff that has nothing to do with the video I'm watching, so thanks.

I guess the best I can say is that they're not all terrible recommendations. Two are songs I already like, two are things I might be interested in and only one is so off mark I don't actually know how they arrived at the idea.

I guess the best I can say is that they're not all terrible recommendations. Two are songs I already like, two are things I might be interested in and only one is so off mark I don't actually know how they arrived at the idea.moooo566, November 07, 2016, 04:21:13 pm

Ah, that's the result of Youtube's "Total Shot in the Dark" algorithm.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on November 08, 2016, 06:29:19 am

I guess the best I can say is that they're not all terrible recommendations. Two are songs I already like, two are things I might be interested in and only one is so off mark I don't actually know how they arrived at the idea.moooo566, November 07, 2016, 04:21:13 pm

A lot of people keep booze in their desk at the office. The engineers have even started a communal beer fridge (as long as you contribute). No one at leadership has complained. Not sure if that is a good thing, or at least a good thing to be enjoyed until someone cracks down on it.

I put some Baileys in it. It's that time of year, after all. It's good in hot cocoa.

All of my jobs have involved working in kitchens, so having booze on hand isn't too unusual for me. After a particularly stressful night cooking orders, tasting a ice cold beer that's been kept in the freezer for an hour is the sweetest taste. I used to work at a pub restaurant where the people working in the kitchen were entitled to a free pint from the bar staff, but this got stopped after too many chefs took the opportunity to order several more pints. There's always at least person who takes a mile when given an inch.

BTW what kind of Baileys? Plain is nice, but I love the hazelnut flavour.

The second episode of Steven Universe (Laser Light Cannon, the one with the giant, hovering eye) ends as a reference to Luke's destruction of the Death Star in Star Wars - A New Hope : Through the intuitive use of a magical power passed down from a deceased parent, Steven destroys a spherical super-weapon that threatens his allies.

It's just an artismonster cock thing that happens here. To achieve monster cockgesia don't over-monster cockyze it or study it like the monster cockects. As a monster cockogy, it would be like hitting the olecrmonster cock process of your humerus or falling into a cmonster cock.

The bmonster cockity of it starts to wear on you after a while though.

It's just an artismonster cock thing that happens here. To achieve monster cockgesia don't over-monster cockyze it or study it like the monster cockects. As a monster cockogy, it would be like hitting the olecrmonster cock process of your humerus or falling into a cmonster cock.

Do you like to read news or sports clips? If so, you'll find it very difficult to talk about them here. Just try talking about Time clip, or Sports Illustrated clip, or Jacobin clip, or National Review clip, or Esquire clip. It always comes out wrong, and I, personally, am just monster cock enough to get a little irritated sometimes.

Being the tooth fairy is fucking harrowing. Whose idea was it to have a tradition where you have to remove an item from underneath a sleeping child's head and replace it with a different item without waking the child? I think I might just hand my kids money next time and tell them that the tooth fairy's gonna pay me back later after she gets her paycheck.

Being the tooth fairy is fucking harrowing. Whose idea was it to have a tradition where you have to remove an item from underneath a sleeping child's head and replace it with a different item without waking the child? I think I might just hand my kids money next time and tell them that the tooth fairy's gonna pay me back later after she gets her paycheck.Victor Laszlo, December 10, 2016, 10:41:08 pm

My folks actually used a box/chest on our nightstand when we were kids; you put the tooth in or on the box, and the Tooth Fairy would leave your reward in the box during the night. My little brother was extra lucky; by the time he started losing teeth, my mom was a veteran, crafty tooth fairy, and sewed him a little pillow with a pocket in it. Put tooth in pocket, put pillow on nightstand, check pocket in morning for reward.

It also helped alleviate our fears, as kids, of accidentally rolling over and squashing the tooth fairy in our sleep. XP Maybe a strategy like that will help!

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Is It Normal this Disgusting Giant Sherman Tank on December 10, 2016, 11:35:03 pm

Being the tooth fairy is fucking harrowing. Whose idea was it to have a tradition where you have to remove an item from underneath a sleeping child's head and replace it with a different item without waking the child? I think I might just hand my kids money next time and tell them that the tooth fairy's gonna pay me back later after she gets her paycheck.Victor Laszlo, December 10, 2016, 10:41:08 pm

My parents would leave a pound coin under our pillow in exchange for a tooth. Because of this tradition, my parents once left an IOU note under my brother's pillow because they realised too late that they couldn't find a pound to leave under the pillow. My brother immediately made fun of our parents because of it. We may have been kids, but we weren't THAT stupid!

Judging by the fact that over a third of the whites I serve at the liqour store are East Slavic (Russian, Belorussian, or Ukrainian), either North San Jose has some hidden ethnic community I know nothing about, or some stereotypes are very true.

There should be a law forcing restaurants to put their playlists online. If wagamama wants to torment me with their swing cover of riptide on loop for an hour, they should at least tell me who was responsible for it.

I wonder, over the course of the F Plus, how many pieces of writing have left open sentencss, quotes and parentheses. I mean there's so many that we can't be free of them from the amount of people who end them without starting them (although the overlong ellipses would probably help to close things). How many layers are we at?

I wonder, over the course of the F Plus, how many pieces of writing have left open sentencss, quotes and parentheses. I mean there's so many that we can't be free of them from the amount of people who end them without starting them (although the overlong ellipses would probably help to close things). How many layers are we at?Cleretic, December 13, 2016, 09:05:30 pm

I've had this username for long enough now that I've started to identify with it to the degree of having that weird little "huh? Oops nvm" moment when I hear the word "fruit" irl

Which makes things a little weird when you work at a place that serves fruit. I feel like one of these days someone's going to come up to me like "hey why do you always have this weird reaction for a split second every time anyone mentions fruit"

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Goose Goose Honk At Me Now on December 26, 2016, 08:13:49 pm

2017 will be the year I buckle down and do drag at least once. I can't decide whether I want to try to be a smooth charmer drag king named Oliver Clozoff, or a Catskills comedian drag king named Perry Stalsis.

A few Christmases ago my mum bought me a fake cat. It's not actually stuffed or anything, but it looks very much like it could be. It's profoundly creepy and terrifying, so after thanking her with total insincerity I put it at the back of a wardrobe in my parents' house, went home to London and forgot all about it. When I came to visit again a few months later, I found it on my bed. There was a brief moment of scrabbling fear, but then I chucked it in a different wardrobe and went about my day. That night, when I went to bed, it was sitting on my pillow. The same thing happened the next night, and the next, and every night for the rest of my stay, despite my increasingly elaborate attempts to hide it. This has been going on for several years, including this Christmas. I'm back in London now, but for all I know it could be sitting on my bed right now. It probably is. I assume it's my mum who keeps putting it there, although I've never caught her in the act (believe me, I've tried) and we've never mentioned it. The other possibility is that it's the cat, but I'd rather not consider that.

Hi there's not really any other appropriate thread to say this so happy new year, internet friends. I hope u have a good 2017.

edit: also i was curious so i looked up whether there was actually anyone in utc-1 and it turns out that right now, happy new year to everyone in the azores, that small section of eastern greendland, and cape verde!!!

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Goose Goose Honk At Me Now on December 31, 2016, 07:00:39 pm

There's a fucking dad joke in Rogue One and I keep thinking about it and laughing and being kind of mad that I'm laughing.

I wish I could levitate things. Not for anything useful, but so could lift my cats up while they're sleeping and be able to move around. Gimme my blanket back you jerksSanguinary Novel, January 02, 2017, 12:28:53 am

I've put way too much thought into what superpower I'd want, and figured out that just going by what fictional characters have them telekinesis is the best. It's really versatile and powerful, but doesn't really have any in-built downsides.

The only power I'd prefer over that is shapeshifting, but that's always got weird fucking stipulations and limitations that take away all the fun. I don't want to become a shapeshifter only to find out I can only shapeshift into domesticated animals, or bodies of water, or people named Casey.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Goose Goose Honk At Me Now on January 02, 2017, 10:35:00 am

The only power I'd prefer over that is shapeshifting, but that's always got weird fucking stipulations and limitations that take away all the fun. I don't want to become a shapeshifter only to find out I can only shapeshift into domesticated animals, or bodies of water, or people named Casey.Cleretic, January 02, 2017, 01:20:20 am

I've recently been revisiting one of my all-time favorite albums, HLLLYH by The Mae Shi. It's a weird sort of experimental, hyperactive, noisy synth punk concept album with a lot of recurring Old Testament imagery throughout, and in my opinion it's criminally underappreciated. Here's a couple of my favorite songs from it:

Pwnd (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjmgPKR6G-Q), a song about God coming to earth and fucking shit up

Boys in the Attic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIpltvDQ5qU), the Punkest song on the album

Young Marks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cu3OcHCaAo), possibly the weirdest use of auto-tune I've ever heard

Anyway I've been a huge fan of this album for a long time now but never understood what the name was supposed to be, thinking maybe the letters stood for something? and then it suddenly clicked that it wasn't an acronym or anything, it's a series of letters that can be read as both HALLELUJAH and HELL YEAH. God damn what a perfect title for an album that is a) full of religious symbolism and b) super high-energy and fucking rocks

I only know one language and that's pathetic. So I decided to learn a second language and chose Spanish because it's spoken in a large number of countries. And I hate it. It's close enough to English that everything sounds like a pig-latin attempt at English. And when I go to Spanish-speaking YouTube it's mostly people fighting on talk shows. To be fair, the talk-show fights are a lot better than the ones on US television; I went in expecting standard slap-fests and saw a lot of great hip-throws. To be more fair, I wouldn't want someone from a Spanish-speaking country to log onto YouTube and judge my culture by pewdiepie.

But Spanish isn't working for me. I need a new second language and South-East Asian cultures are too authoritarian for my tastes. Is there anything you'd recommend?

I only know one language and that's pathetic. So I decided to learn a second language and chose Spanish because it's spoken in a large number of countries. And I hate it. It's close enough to English that everything sounds like a pig-latin attempt at English. And when I go to Spanish-speaking YouTube it's mostly people fighting on talk shows. To be fair, the talk-show fights are a lot better than the ones on US television; I went in expecting standard slap-fests and saw a lot of great hip-throws. To be more fair, I wouldn't want someone from a Spanish-speaking country to log onto YouTube and judge my culture by pewdiepie.

But Spanish isn't working for me. I need a new second language and South-East Asian cultures are too authoritarian for my tastes. Is there anything you'd recommend? Healslime, January 06, 2017, 06:18:10 pm

If you want a language with grammar that is very different from English (and is also easy to find material for), might I recommend Turkish? It's on Duolingo, for one thing. Another source that I've used is http://turkishlanguage.co.uk, which gives a pretty good overview of Turkish grammar.

I only know one language and that's pathetic. So I decided to learn a second language and chose Spanish because it's spoken in a large number of countries. And I hate it. It's close enough to English that everything sounds like a pig-latin attempt at English. And when I go to Spanish-speaking YouTube it's mostly people fighting on talk shows. To be fair, the talk-show fights are a lot better than the ones on US television; I went in expecting standard slap-fests and saw a lot of great hip-throws. To be more fair, I wouldn't want someone from a Spanish-speaking country to log onto YouTube and judge my culture by pewdiepie.

But Spanish isn't working for me. I need a new second language and South-East Asian cultures are too authoritarian for my tastes. Is there anything you'd recommend? Healslime, January 06, 2017, 06:18:10 pm

Kinda sorta a recommendation, but American Sign Language? Not truly another language, but still super helpful.

Just now noticed that Frank West changed his name to Wank Fest. The whole time my brain has been jumbling the letters around, whistling, "NOTHING TO SEE HERE"

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Frank West on January 07, 2017, 06:13:49 pm

Just now noticed that Frank West changed his name to Wank Fest. The whole time my brain has been jumbling the letters around, whistling, "NOTHING TO SEE HERE"Sanguinary Novel, January 07, 2017, 05:04:01 pm

Just now noticed that Frank West changed his name to Wank Fest. The whole time my brain has been jumbling the letters around, whistling, "NOTHING TO SEE HERE"Sanguinary Novel, January 07, 2017, 05:04:01 pm

Just now noticed that Frank West changed his name to Wank Fest. The whole time my brain has been jumbling the letters around, whistling, "NOTHING TO SEE HERE"Sanguinary Novel, January 07, 2017, 05:04:01 pm

Just now noticed that Frank West changed his name to Wank Fest. The whole time my brain has been jumbling the letters around, whistling, "NOTHING TO SEE HERE"Sanguinary Novel, January 07, 2017, 05:04:01 pm

Just now noticed that Frank West changed his name to Wank Fest. The whole time my brain has been jumbling the letters around, whistling, "NOTHING TO SEE HERE"Sanguinary Novel, January 07, 2017, 05:04:01 pm

I stole a paperclip because it had a winky face on it. I don't know what to do with it now. Its contemptuous smile haunts me.Tose, January 09, 2017, 04:07:57 am

"In further news, Microsoft's 'Clippy' was abducted from his home in the Chicago suburbs late last evening. The kidnappers have not yet contacted authorities with a ransom or list of demands, and Clippy's family is currently fearing the worst."

In other news, a man with smiling yellow face and glasses was seen at the local scrap metal recycling plant. Employees report the man answered to "Bob" and was "more than happy" to deposit a double-bent piece of metal free of charge. The man was seen with a jittery green dragon holding a coffee cup.

There's a Gray Catbird that's been hanging out by some shrubs at a train station the last few weeks, it's weird because it's hundreds of miles outside of its supposed wintering range. It's fat as all hell so I don't think it has a hard time finding food, but I'm not sure it's really built for 14°F weather? It forages with a Robin crew, so thankfully it's got some company until spring.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Frank West on January 12, 2017, 10:57:20 am

Internet conspiracies helped decide the election, we have tv shows about steampunk, a furry movie was the most popular children's movie, the president gets into flamewars, and the whole country is talking about pissplay.

It's time to face it guys: 2016 was the year weird internet took over the real world. We're living in web 3.0, where everyone is a F Plus exhibit.

I wonder if Boots/Lemon keep a doc around with all of the songs used in episodes. Do they have just a text file sitting around with general categories? Like, "Hey if we ever do this topic, this song would be great". After 240 episodes its gotta be a little hard finding a song.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Goose Goose Honk At Me Now on January 15, 2017, 03:12:08 pm

Benedict Cumberbatch's face kind of looks from some angles like a morbidly obese letter T

It's very possible I've already said this in this thread because I think about it every time I hear the song Don't Let's Start by They Might Be Giants but man there is one part in that song that I just love:

D, world DestructionOver and OvertureN, do I Needapostrophe T, need this Torture?

The fact that he says "apostrophe" there is so funny and it's something that I don't think any other band would have done. It's such a purely TMBG thing to do and I love it so much

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on January 17, 2017, 02:51:38 pm

I really wish I remembered the reasoning my friends and I had for considering time travel an STD. I think it might've stemmed from me trying to rationalize the mindset that you can't have both a time machine and a family because there's no way in hell you could hide it from them.

I wonder if Boots/Lemon keep a doc around with all of the songs used in episodes. Do they have just a text file sitting around with general categories? Like, "Hey if we ever do this topic, this song would be great". After 240 episodes its gotta be a little hard finding a song.Sanguinary Novel, January 15, 2017, 10:56:44 am

In that same thread, does Sherman Tank have a text file with all of the names he's used?

I don't think I could ever get LASIK. When my vision first started getting blurry, I hated having to wear glasses, but now I can't imagine having clear vision all the time. Being able to basically switch my eyes off is so relaxing sometimes. Like, whenever I'm on break at work I take off my glasses and it's like saying "yeah everything around me is absolutely not my problem right now, I can't see it and I can't care about it."

Another reason is because that shit's expensive

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Goose Goose Honk At Me Now on January 21, 2017, 06:48:01 pm

I don't think I can stop, I think this is just an involuntary action I'm going to have to live with now. I don't even watch Jojos, it's just a thing my hands are doing that I recognize as Jojos because of what little I've seen!

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on January 24, 2017, 06:08:54 am

Nail polish is making me do Jojo poses.

I don't think I can stop, I think this is just an involuntary action I'm going to have to live with now. I don't even watch Jojos, it's just a thing my hands are doing that I recognize as Jojos because of what little I've seen!Cleretic, January 24, 2017, 06:01:42 am

I don't think I can stop, I think this is just an involuntary action I'm going to have to live with now. I don't even watch Jojos, it's just a thing my hands are doing that I recognize as Jojos because of what little I've seen!Cleretic, January 24, 2017, 06:01:42 am

I feel so goddamn bad for the artist who created Pepe the frog. It's one thing to know that somewhere someone is jerking off to your creation, but to have it be used as a new symbol for literal nazis? Fuck.

I don't think I can stop, I think this is just an involuntary action I'm going to have to live with now. I don't even watch Jojos, it's just a thing my hands are doing that I recognize as Jojos because of what little I've seen!Cleretic, January 24, 2017, 06:01:42 am

Considered, yes, but I'm not sure what the best way to do it is. I mean it's probably Crunchyroll, but I haven't really looked.Cleretic, January 24, 2017, 07:03:44 am

There's a new dub coming soon if I remember right. I'm pretty sure it's gonna be on Crunchyroll or something when it comes out. I think it'll cover Parts 1-3. There's already a dub for Parts 1&2, but it's by a different studio, so voice actors in Part 3 will be different and whatever.

I maintain a Twitter for a small feminist organisation in Finnish and can someone please explain to me why racists and MRAs keep following me when it is obvious I'm gonna block them immediately? I'm not an idiot, I don't start arguments with random Internet trolls, especially when I'm representing my group.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Frank West on January 29, 2017, 08:15:17 am

I maintain a Twitter for a small feminist organisation in Finnish and can someone please explain to me why racists and MRAs keep following me when it is obvious I'm gonna block them immediately? I'm not an idiot, I don't start arguments with random Internet trolls, especially when I'm representing my group.montrith, January 29, 2017, 06:03:19 am

There's a semi-organized effort by racists and mras and etc. to search twitter for specific keywords and then shout at the person using them as much as possible. They're literally using the search engine, cause it happens to accounts with no retweets or attention, so they're probably finding you actually posting feminist stuff frequently and following automatically, to make their harrassment easier.

I maintain a Twitter for a small feminist organisation in Finnish and can someone please explain to me why racists and MRAs keep following me when it is obvious I'm gonna block them immediately? I'm not an idiot, I don't start arguments with random Internet trolls, especially when I'm representing my group.montrith, January 29, 2017, 06:03:19 am

There's a semi-organized effort by racists and mras and etc. to search twitter for specific keywords and then shout at the person using them as much as possible. They're literally using the search engine, cause it happens to accounts with no retweets or attention, so they're probably finding you actually posting feminist stuff frequently and following automatically, to make their harrassment easier.Frank West, January 29, 2017, 08:15:17 am

The thing is, they never even get to yell at me. They follow me, I check their profile and block them, and that's the end of that. The entire extent of our communication is "ChauvinistPig followed you" "You have blocked ChauvinistPig".

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Is It Normal this Disgusting Giant Sherman Tank on January 30, 2017, 09:34:22 pm

I wonder if Boots/Lemon keep a doc around with all of the songs used in episodes. Do they have just a text file sitting around with general categories? Like, "Hey if we ever do this topic, this song would be great". After 240 episodes its gotta be a little hard finding a song.Sanguinary Novel, January 15, 2017, 10:56:44 am

Lemon is running a highly sophisticated racketeering scheme through the efforts of the F plus.

He told me i'd get 99 years of membership while clearly he only offers 21. Members of the racketeering elite also include Boots Raingear, who uses ballp.it donations to fund his decadent bachelor lifestyle.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Is It Normal this Disgusting Giant Sherman Tank on January 31, 2017, 06:58:19 am

My hair is finally long enough to fit entirely in a ponytail. I've always kept moderately long hair, but this is the longest it's been since I was 17. So like 9 years. I'm proud of myself.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Frank West on January 31, 2017, 11:13:41 am

Lemon is running a highly sophisticated racketeering scheme through the efforts of the F plus.

He told me i'd get 99 years of membership while clearly he only offers 21. Members of the racketeering elite also include Boots Raingear, who uses ballp.it donations to fund his decadent bachelor lifestyle.Sseth672, January 31, 2017, 06:19:17 am

You're not looking deep enough. It's not about the money, money is meaningless to people this powerful. It's about bulbs, that's where the true power lies.

You're not looking deep enough. It's not about the money, money is meaningless to people this powerful. It's about bulbs, that's where the true power lies.Frank West, January 31, 2017, 11:13:41 am

My god. I couldn't see the forest for the trees, so to speak. While money has limited liquidity based on the willingness of people to trade the equity, bulbs are infinitely liquid - their worth or lack of never changes.

*extremely Adam Curtis voice* "But while the people of ballp.it had their concerns rerouted towards 'football congresses' and 'cursed images' those in power remained fixated on the only thing that has ever mattered in this world.

Lemon is running a highly sophisticated racketeering scheme through the efforts of the F plus.

He told me i'd get 99 years of membership while clearly he only offers 21. Members of the racketeering elite also include Boots Raingear, who uses ballp.it donations to fund his decadent bachelor lifestyle.Sseth672, January 31, 2017, 06:19:17 am

You're not looking deep enough. It's not about the money, money is meaningless to people this powerful. It's about bulbs, that's where the true power lies.Frank West, January 31, 2017, 11:13:41 am

Don't listen to Frank West, he is the true Bulb Baron. He slings his lies so that he can covet your bulbs. Lemon is true, he provides bulbs for us all.

Lemon is running a highly sophisticated racketeering scheme through the efforts of the F plus.

He told me i'd get 99 years of membership while clearly he only offers 21. Members of the racketeering elite also include Boots Raingear, who uses ballp.it donations to fund his decadent bachelor lifestyle.Sseth672, January 31, 2017, 06:19:17 am

You're not looking deep enough. It's not about the money, money is meaningless to people this powerful. It's about bulbs, that's where the true power lies.Frank West, January 31, 2017, 11:13:41 am

Free will is a myth! Religion is a joke. We are all controlled by something greater: Bulbs! The DNA of the post.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Frank West on January 31, 2017, 01:13:28 pm

Lemon is running a highly sophisticated racketeering scheme through the efforts of the F plus.

He told me i'd get 99 years of membership while clearly he only offers 21. Members of the racketeering elite also include Boots Raingear, who uses ballp.it donations to fund his decadent bachelor lifestyle.Sseth672, January 31, 2017, 06:19:17 am

You're not looking deep enough. It's not about the money, money is meaningless to people this powerful. It's about bulbs, that's where the true power lies.Frank West, January 31, 2017, 11:13:41 am

Don't listen to Frank West, he is the true Bulb Baron. He slings his lies so that he can covet your bulbs. Lemon is true, he provides bulbs for us all.Achilles' Heelies, January 31, 2017, 11:42:39 am

Provably wrong, when I stole the power of bulbs from the powerful I distributed them to all (https://ballp.it/index.php?topic=1984.msg62237#msg62237)until the man shut me down.

Lemon is running a highly sophisticated racketeering scheme through the efforts of the F plus.

He told me i'd get 99 years of membership while clearly he only offers 21. Members of the racketeering elite also include Boots Raingear, who uses ballp.it donations to fund his decadent bachelor lifestyle.Sseth672, January 31, 2017, 06:19:17 am

You're not looking deep enough. It's not about the money, money is meaningless to people this powerful. It's about bulbs, that's where the true power lies.Frank West, January 31, 2017, 11:13:41 am

Don't listen to Frank West, he is the true Bulb Baron. He slings his lies so that he can covet your bulbs. Lemon is true, he provides bulbs for us all.Achilles' Heelies, January 31, 2017, 11:42:39 am

Provably wrong, when I stole the power of bulbs from the powerful I distributed them to all (https://ballp.it/index.php?topic=1984.msg62237#msg62237)until the man shut me down.

Lemon is running a highly sophisticated racketeering scheme through the efforts of the F plus.

He told me i'd get 99 years of membership while clearly he only offers 21. Members of the racketeering elite also include Boots Raingear, who uses ballp.it donations to fund his decadent bachelor lifestyle.Sseth672, January 31, 2017, 06:19:17 am

You're not looking deep enough. It's not about the money, money is meaningless to people this powerful. It's about bulbs, that's where the true power lies.Frank West, January 31, 2017, 11:13:41 am

Don't listen to Frank West, he is the true Bulb Baron. He slings his lies so that he can covet your bulbs. Lemon is true, he provides bulbs for us all.Achilles' Heelies, January 31, 2017, 11:42:39 am

Provably wrong, when I stole the power of bulbs from the powerful I distributed them to all (https://ballp.it/index.php?topic=1984.msg62237#msg62237)until the man shut me down.

I want to program a bot for facebook and twitter that automatically responds to every post about how we've never landed on the moon with a link to the wiki article on the Lunar Retroreflectors (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment) and a google search on local laser rental agencies.

"Gamergate" is term in Myrmecology (the study of ants) used to refer to species in which all the workers are fertile and thus vie for dominance to become the queen and have the right to reproduce. From now on whenever I hear about Gamergate that's what I'm going to assume is being talked about.

"Gamergate" is term in Myrmecology (the study of ants) used to refer to species in which all the workers are fertile and thus vie for dominance to become the queen and have the right to reproduce. From now on whenever I hear about Gamergate that's what I'm going to assume is being talked about.温尼负鼠, February 03, 2017, 08:40:50 pm

I just think it's shit new school gamers that are misspelling Shadowgate.

I never realized just how many Yiddish words have entered my daily vocabulary until I moved to a place without a healthy Jewish population. I miss hearing it routinely, there are so many words that are just perfect to use, and fun to say.

"Just gonna schlep these tchotchkes over here..." "Gonna grab a little nosh, be right back!" "Ah, don't pay me any mind, I'm just kvetching." "Man, she's got some real chutzpah! You know?" "They're just schmoozing over there, I'm not one for that kind of kibitzing." "That's his whole schtick, you know? Being overly schmaltzy...."

"... What do you mean you've never heard that word before? Really?" X3

I never realized just how many Yiddish words have entered my daily vocabulary until I moved to a place without a healthy Jewish population. I miss hearing it routinely, there are so many words that are just perfect to use, and fun to say.

"Just gonna schlep these tchotchkes over here..." "Gonna grab a little nosh, be right back!" "Ah, don't pay me any mind, I'm just kvetching." "Man, she's got some real chutzpah! You know?" "They're just schmoozing over there, I'm not one for that kind of kibitzing." "That's his whole schtick, you know? Being overly schmaltzy...."

I never realized just how many Yiddish words have entered my daily vocabulary until I moved to a place without a healthy Jewish population. I miss hearing it routinely, there are so many words that are just perfect to use, and fun to say.

"Just gonna schlep these tchotchkes over here..." "Gonna grab a little nosh, be right back!" "Ah, don't pay me any mind, I'm just kvetching." "Man, she's got some real chutzpah! You know?" "They're just schmoozing over there, I'm not one for that kind of kibitzing." "That's his whole schtick, you know? Being overly schmaltzy...."

Probably one of the most liked comments I've ever made on Facebook is just a screencap of a dril tweet. Lesson learned: never put any effort into anything, just shitpost 24/7.Yavuz Sultan Selim, February 15, 2017, 09:42:54 pm

My cat Ferdinand is always super chatty before and after I get in the shower, and hangs out in between the liner and curtain during. I wonder if he's just annoyed I went somewhere he won't go, or he's distressed that's the big dumb cat human is so dumb that they keep hanging out in water.

I found a male lesser goldfinch huddled against the railroad tracks while on a walk today. There was nothing obviously wrong with it except that it was there on the ground and not fleeing. I brought it to a wildlife rescue place and they said I could call tomorrow to see how it was doing. It's funny. They just assume you're gonna be kinda attached to the animal you brought in.

Here's a picture of one because they are cute and so very tiny.(https://download.ams.birds.cornell.edu/api/v1/asset/24950991)

I do second guess myself every time I try helping an animal, though, cause I don't want to disturb a peaceful death or stress it out and cause it to fair worse. ):

I found a male lesser goldfinch huddled against the railroad tracks while on a walk today. There was nothing obviously wrong with it except that it was there on the ground and not fleeing. I brought it to a wildlife rescue place and they said I could call tomorrow to see how it was doing. It's funny. They just assume you're gonna be kinda attached to the animal you brought in.

Here's a picture of one because they are cute and so very tiny.(https://download.ams.birds.cornell.edu/api/v1/asset/24950991)

I do second guess myself every time I try helping an animal, though, cause I don't want to disturb a peaceful death or stress it out and cause it to fair worse. ):Tose the Handsome Anime Boy, February 19, 2017, 01:19:45 am

Nah, you did the right thing. If you hadn't helped, it probably would have gotten picked off by whatever your local predators are (cats, raptors, etc.), not exactly a peaceful death. Age and time of year is important though; if it's a young bird in spring (hatch year birds can look surprisingly adult, depending on the species), it could just be learning to fly, in which case it's best to leave it alone.

I only get American Goldfinches where I live, no Lessers but oh man... they are top birbs. Watching a cluster of them burst out of a patch of goldenrod tweeting up a storm on a hot summer morning is [freakout]

I found a male lesser goldfinch huddled against the railroad tracks while on a walk today. There was nothing obviously wrong with it except that it was there on the ground and not fleeing. I brought it to a wildlife rescue place and they said I could call tomorrow to see how it was doing. It's funny. They just assume you're gonna be kinda attached to the animal you brought in.

Here's a picture of one because they are cute and so very tiny.(https://download.ams.birds.cornell.edu/api/v1/asset/24950991)

I do second guess myself every time I try helping an animal, though, cause I don't want to disturb a peaceful death or stress it out and cause it to fair worse. ):Tose the Handsome Anime Boy, February 19, 2017, 01:19:45 am

On a lighter note to my post in the 'strategic jargon' thread, because it doesn't deserve to be derailed by my light-hearted fantasy-elaborations: I often amuse myself by trying to figure out what kind of villainous entity various large companies would be.

Amazon is absolutely 'death ray evil', like a Bond villain or a Lex Luthor thing where they're just thinly-veiling some evil scheme. Google and Apple are both Deus Ex-esque 'conspiracy cyberpunk' that's ubiquitous and innocent until they flip the 'take over the world' switch. eBay I can't see as anything high-level, but would be complicit in black-market dealings and taken down by some street-level hero like Daredevil. Nintendo is obviously the friendly company targeting kids for some nefarious-but-soft plan in a kid-focused TV show or movie, but that's so clear you wouldn't even have to make any changes.

EDIT: Which really means we should be measuring the strength of nuclear weapons, meteorite impacts, or supervolcanoes in terms of how many million tons of butter, or MEGABUTTERS, they are equivalent to.

"The Tsar-Bomb was the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated on earth, equivalent to 8.3 Megabutters."

EDIT: Which really means we should be measuring the strength of nuclear weapons, meteorite impacts, or supervolcanoes in terms of how many million tons of butter, or MEGABUTTERS, they are equivalent to.

"The Tsar-Bomb was the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated on earth, equivalent to 8.3 Megabutters."LancashireMcGee, February 26, 2017, 02:42:58 pm

Burn that butter for power stations, measure the output in PaulaDeenaHertz - or in milliMyocardial Infarcations.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on February 27, 2017, 02:41:21 pm

It sure is weird that you chose birth control methods as a topic of conversation, but I guess I can see how we got here. We started out talking about kids and... well, it didn't naturally make it's way there, when I think about it. Kids to birth control is a hard jump, and I think you brought up the kid thing.

Anyway, I'm not squeamish and I am polite, so god damn it I am gonna have this conversation with you, but I am going to talk about it in the abstract. "Yes, these various methods exist, one might be interested in trying this particular method." But, if we're going down this fucking road, Lyft driver, you're gonna need to heed one very simple rule: Never ask me

“What does it feel like?”

And when I demure from this line of questioning with something fairly explicit, such as "I don't want to talk about that." (because in addition to everything else it isn't even noon yet), this is not a more acceptable followup:

“But does it feel good?”

It's too bad I have to wait for the ride to be over before I can rate you, but here we go:[star] [star] [empty] [empty] [empty]

The Nintendo Switch's carts have been specifically engineered to taste terrible, to make sure no child swallows one. This was a deliberate decision and outcome, the entire implied process is hilarious to me.

This was either specifically in a design doc somewhere, and/or came up in a meeting and invoked very involved discussions about how bad it should taste, how it should be incorporated into the manufacturing process, all that. Presumably, for at least a week, this was somebody's primary job and task. They came to work, every day, to work out--either through meticulous selection or engineering--the specifically worst-tasting substance they could coat the Switch's games in, which was also not dangerous to the console (or presumably for people ingesting it). They probably went through several candidates, in fact.

The Nintendo Switch's carts have been specifically engineered to taste terrible, to make sure no child swallows one. This was a deliberate decision and outcome, the entire implied process is hilarious to me.

This was either specifically in a design doc somewhere, and/or came up in a meeting and invoked very involved discussions about how bad it should taste, how it should be incorporated into the manufacturing process, all that. Presumably, for at least a week, this was somebody's primary job and task. They came to work, every day, to work out--either through meticulous selection or engineering--the specifically worst-tasting substance they could coat the Switch's games in, which was also not dangerous to the console (or presumably for people ingesting it). They probably went through several candidates, in fact.Cleretic, March 03, 2017, 03:41:21 am

I like to think that it was done like a clinical drug trial. There were groups of volunteers, each one being made to lick a different tasting cartridge and fill in a questionaire afterwards. "Okay, so the cartridges aren't delicious or harmful to the rats, let's see how the humans react."

I wonder if anyone has attached a gopro or similar camera to a kite and then flown it. I bet it would look really cool. I also like the combination of technology from centuries ago with modern recording equipment.

The Nintendo Switch's carts have been specifically engineered to taste terrible, to make sure no child swallows one. This was a deliberate decision and outcome, the entire implied process is hilarious to me.

This was either specifically in a design doc somewhere, and/or came up in a meeting and invoked very involved discussions about how bad it should taste, how it should be incorporated into the manufacturing process, all that. Presumably, for at least a week, this was somebody's primary job and task. They came to work, every day, to work out--either through meticulous selection or engineering--the specifically worst-tasting substance they could coat the Switch's games in, which was also not dangerous to the console (or presumably for people ingesting it). They probably went through several candidates, in fact.Cleretic, March 03, 2017, 03:41:21 am

I like to think that it was done like a clinical drug trial. There were groups of volunteers, each one being made to lick a different tasting cartridge and fill in a questionaire afterwards. "Okay, so the cartridges aren't delicious or harmful to the rats, let's see how the humans react."Eider Duck, March 03, 2017, 11:07:16 am

I knew someone who was working at a large health and cleaning products company that is not Satanic at all, back when that company was developing prototypes for its adult diapers. This dude was in charge of organizing test groups for the various diaper prototypes, and when he couldn't get enough test subjects, he had to test them himself.

I wonder if anyone has attached a gopro or similar camera to a kite and then flown it. I bet it would look really cool. I also like the combination of technology from centuries ago with modern recording equipment.bigfangirl, March 04, 2017, 11:27:44 pm

Aerieal kite photography is totally a thing, and it sure does look really cool. You can actually build the equipment (http://makezine.com/projects/build-kite-aerial-photography-rig/) pretty easily, too.

It has taken me three days of committed writing to write something incredibly depressing.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Frank West on March 20, 2017, 09:06:22 am

Let's go back to better times, and take back the land that's rightfully ours! No, I'm not talking about white nationalism. I'm a member of the really really extremely conservative party, and we're looking to go back to the good old days before all this multiculturalism. That's right, I'm talking about Pangaea. My movement, Citizens against Plate Tectonics, seeks to use large rockets to smash all the continents together and then devolve into newts and shit.

Let's go back to better times, and take back the land that's rightfully ours! No, I'm not talking about white nationalism. I'm a member of the really really extremely conservative party, and we're looking to go back to the good old days before all this multiculturalism. That's right, I'm talking about Pangaea. My movement, Citizens against Plate Tectonics, seeks to use large rockets to smash all the continents together and then devolve into newts and shit.Frank West, March 20, 2017, 09:06:22 am

(https://img0.etsystatic.com/000/0/5326218/il_570xN.170430884.jpg)

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on March 20, 2017, 05:27:48 pm

Let's go back to better times, and take back the land that's rightfully ours! No, I'm not talking about white nationalism. I'm a member of the really really extremely conservative party, and we're looking to go back to the good old days before all this multiculturalism. That's right, I'm talking about Pangaea. My movement, Citizens against Plate Tectonics, seeks to use large rockets to smash all the continents together and then devolve into newts and shit.Frank West, March 20, 2017, 09:06:22 am

Might I interest you in a band that's being championing this kind of cause for decades? It's even in their name, they're all for devolution. And as an added bonus, they have cool hats!

Marvel has an officially-numbered universe (http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Earth-51914) in its multiverse for the ads they did for Hostess Snacks in the 60s and 70s (in which superheroes defeat their opponents by giving them Hostess products).

I can't stop thinking about those damn not-helvetica helvetica leggings. They're so dumb, and so bad, but I want them because they are so bad. They'd pair perfectly with this tshirt. (https://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=ZQ-THEBEST&Category_Code=ZQ)

One way to make me lose interest in a show is to shoehorn in an unnecessary straight romance with the wow factor of stale bread. What I realized today is that I have specifically gone out of my way to avoid this for so long that it makes me extra sad to come back to it in a show that otherwise seems fine.

I've become so completely immersed in the bullshit of the Internet that when I saw an ad for a graduate student event that said "Family and Furry Friends Welcome", it took me a second to realize that they were talking about pets, rather than "friends who are furries". Also I'm pretty tired, so that probably doesn't help.

a whole hour, searching through Muscle Prostitute reviews and discussion, and where did it get me? Nowhere, they're all so fucking boring about how they paid 700 dollars to get choked out by moonlighting female weightlifters, even the stories about tarzan themed bdsm sessions are pointless. THis is my art, my life now, and its all going down hte drain

I picked up an EPUB that was just over 100 MB, then reconverted it to EPUB format, and it lost nearly 90% of its size. I just want to know how much junk they shoved into that original file and/or how fucking big the pictures were.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Is It Normal this Disgusting Giant Sherman Tank on April 03, 2017, 01:36:21 pm

If it wasn't for the Billy Goat in Terminal C there would be nothing redeeming about O'Hare at all. Except Reggio's in the same terminal, I suppose.

Woah, what do you think you did to get his attention? Did you write a series of tweets asking to reinstate the draft so we can deploy American troops to Israeli borders?Lemon, April 09, 2017, 11:23:43 am

I’d like to think that in these dark and fractious times, he’s decided that Americans of all political beliefs can unite around a desire to laugh at male pregnancy, the Fantendo wiki, and Dozerfleet.

I can't stop thinking about that Real Superman guy, his use of logic is fascinating.

Most of the time he claims A is B Because.... , and then rephrases the statement. But I'm most interested that he said "Once you find out Killer Croc is Eminem, it all becomes clear" or something. He has no idea why he thinks A is B, but when he makes that epiphany, he desperately forms a correlation. Then sometimes he leads on from epiphanies to fill in new characters, like Trump has to be Gorilla Grodd because Ivanka is some other comic lady. He's got the idea that if he discovers enough points on the network, he can then deduce who the real Superman is. Then he talks about Spoilers, despite it being a planned reality show and the fact it's real life. He also doesn't seem to understand secret identities, he says someone is both the real Iron Man AND Tony Stark, and doesn't even consider Batman when talking about Kanye being Bruce Wayne. It's a crystal clear look at the schizophrenic mind but his actual views on pop culture are even nuttier. Why's he worried about spoiling who the Real Santa Claus is but not Lex Luthor.

And the only thing he wants to do with the knowledge that all fiction ever is a parallel universe is make a TV show.

I'm weirded out by how consistent a response I get when I mention the two names I'm torn between changing mine to. Whenever I say it's between Ashleigh or Claire, I've had people from totally different cities, states, and even countries voice the same opinion: Every Claire they've met is really nice, while any Ashleighs they know generally aren't.

I'm coming to the conclusion that all the Claires in the world are either genuinely cool people without fail, or are setting up slander ops against all the world's Ashleighs. Or at least have a way better PR team.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on April 11, 2017, 06:09:24 am

I'm weirded out by how consistent a response I get when I mention the two names I'm torn between changing mine to. Whenever I say it's between Ashleigh or Claire, I've had people from totally different cities, states, and even countries voice the same opinion: Every Claire they've met is really nice, while any Ashleighs they know generally aren't.

I'm coming to the conclusion that all the Claires in the world are either genuinely cool people without fail, or are setting up slander ops against all the world's Ashleighs. Or at least have a way better PR team.Cleretic, April 11, 2017, 04:55:50 am

Ashleigh/Ashley used to be one of the most popular girls' names in the US in the late 80's to early 90's, so people tend to know way more of them than Claires, and people tend to remember unpleasant people, and if there just are more with that name, there's a higher chance they'd remember someone with that name they didn't like.

Someone used the term "stretch goals" and the first thing I thought of was goatse.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Shell Game on April 17, 2017, 09:15:26 pm

I just can't figure out what drives people to lodge incredibly petty complaints towards large companies. I opened up a frozen pizza and found all the pepperoni had fallen to one side, and immediately thought of how some cranky old weirdo would likely have handwritten a letter to the store, the distributor, and the manufacturer and expected some kind of compensation. Do people really think some giant corporation is going to give one flying fuck about their outrage? Especially since they're just going to keep buying the crap anyway...

I just can't figure out what drives people to lodge incredibly petty complaints towards large companies. I opened up a frozen pizza and found all the pepperoni had fallen to one side, and immediately thought of how some cranky old weirdo would likely have handwritten a letter to the store, the distributor, and the manufacturer and expected some kind of compensation. Do people really think some giant corporation is going to give one flying fuck about their outrage? Especially since they're just going to keep buying the crap anyway...Shell Game, April 17, 2017, 09:15:26 pm

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Frank West on April 19, 2017, 05:04:04 pm

A Keurig but for guillotines. You buy the guillotine (it's all white plastic and has rounded edges, of course) and also buy into a subscription program where every month you get a new person sent to you for public execution. You can choose from multiple lines of subscriptions depending on who you want to murder: the Rich, the Poor, people with certain political preferences, etc. Comes with a touch screen for automatic use and cleaning. Also has an always-on connection to the internet, to share your brutal kills with your friends and family on facebook and twitter!

A Keurig but for guillotines. You buy the guillotine (it's all white plastic and has rounded edges, of course) and also buy into a subscription program where every month you get a new person sent to you for public execution. You can choose from multiple lines of subscriptions depending on who you want to murder: the Rich, the Poor, people with certain political preferences, etc. Comes with a touch screen for automatic use and cleaning. Also has an always-on connection to the internet, to share your brutal kills with your friends and family on facebook and twitter!Frank West, April 19, 2017, 05:04:04 pm

It integrates with your smart lights to provide the proper mood lighting for your execution. Also, it can cue up music on Spotify.

one thing that always surprises me about the fplus is the posts they find by communists. Everyone talks about misogynistic tendencies or fascism but I'm struck by the rare commie posts, like Towards a Marxist Understanding of Tickle Fetishism or the CM punk ripoff. I can't find any thread connecting them, they're from another universe or something.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on April 21, 2017, 11:46:33 pm

one thing that always surprises me about the fplus is the posts they find by communists. Everyone talks about misogynistic tendencies or fascism but I'm struck by the rare commie posts, like Towards a Marxist Understanding of Tickle Fetishism or the CM punk ripoff. I can't find any thread connecting them, they're from another universe or something.GirlKisser420, April 21, 2017, 11:11:49 pm

The Juicero is the laugh everyone needed in these dark times. It's a machine invented by an idiot, invested in by idiots, and bought by rich idiots. Don't get me wrong, it's a definitely a symbol of late-stage capitalism, but fuck, I can laugh at it and not feel guilty.

Even if Blade Runner 2 turns out to be a decent film in it's own right, it still has the fact that it's a sequel to motherfucking Blade Runner going against it. Blade Runner is, well, a classic film. It's beautilfully shot, there's excellent performances from everyone involved, and it's so iconic.

My neighborhood is used a cut through for people commuting to work at the hospital in the morning. One of the little pleasures of my day is driving the speed limit and stopping at stop signs on the way to drop my daughter off at preschool.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Shell Game on April 26, 2017, 10:54:45 pm

I hope they allow me to keep the phrasing "Erected A.D. 2018" on the construction memorial plaque, mostly because I want to enable the next generation of middle schoolers to say "Tee hee, erected"Sanguinary Novel, May 03, 2017, 10:14:20 am

When I designed signs, I, too, had to put the word "erected" on cornerstones and plaques and giggled. And did I giggle.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: nuffkins, of all people, on May 04, 2017, 06:40:33 am

A: Because it's layout doesn't make sense.Q: Why is tumblr so hard to read?

I keep wanting to do huge write-ups of the godawful movies I've seen over the years, but it would be so very very very pointless.One Of The Crappy Pokemon That Nobody Likes, May 07, 2017, 09:06:49 pm

That didn’t stop me from doing it. Very few people read them, but it gives me a chance to do non-legal writing for a change.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Shell Game on May 08, 2017, 12:38:28 am

Yeah. I wrote stuff about video games because I wanted to try it, not because I thought anyone would want to read it. It was a fun exercise all the same. Actually I think I also wanted a break form writing strictly for school during my last year of college...

Every time I read the words 'humble bundle', I like reading them as 'hubble mubble', in my brain.

EDIT: My ballpit account cost ten bucks. Every time I make a post, the cost per post goes down. Does that mean I should post a lot, to make the cost per post go down, or post very little, to ensure that my posts are of value?

Not in Riverdale! In Riverdale he was generally more interested in writing and mysteries than relationships until he accidentally started dating Betty and realized he liked how that felt. He might still be asexual, but he's definitely romantically-capable.

Riverdale started off with Archie having an affair with Ms. Grundy, though, so it's not exactly remaining faithful to the canon.

Jesus tittyfucking christ, Chris Cornell is dead? My 13 year old self is crying her eyes out right now. I loved Soundgarden growing up, and Euphoria Morning is still one of my favourite albums. I guess today is going to be a grunge day for me

there's both a race of people called Toads and a dude called Toad, who is completely unremarkable in comparison. thats gotta be really fucked up being the lowest common denominator of your people. The even crazier part is everyone decides to make him their only pro athlete and ultimate representative. I can only begin to understand the deep psychic anguish Toad must feel.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Shell Game on May 22, 2017, 07:08:31 pm

there's both a race of people called Toads and a dude called Toad, who is completely unremarkable in comparison. thats gotta be really fucked up being the lowest common denominator of your people. The even crazier part is everyone decides to make him their only pro athlete and ultimate representative. I can only begin to understand the deep psychic anguish Toad must feel.GirlKisser420, May 22, 2017, 06:33:39 pm

You read his thing about the attack in Manchester as well, didn't you. It's infuriating. It's not like MPs have been attacked and/or been victims of high profile murder cases before or anything, nope....

You read his thing about the attack in Manchester as well, didn't you. It's infuriating. It's not like MPs have been attacked and/or been victims of high profile murder cases before or anything, nope....Eider Duck, May 24, 2017, 03:37:49 pm

I followed his Facebook page. Note the past tense, because his statement, and the comments that followed, made me click unfollow so fast I need a new mouse!

Hey, I never said I "liked" him. I just thought that The Smiths were cool and they I'd follow their frontman. Turns out he's a twat with a superiority complex, which is strange because he doesn't like Trump!

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Frank West on May 25, 2017, 02:24:16 pm

Avengers-style film franchise based on 90s nickelodeon live action shows, starting with Good Burger and obviously ending with the All That team up.

Avengers-style film franchise based on 90s nickelodeon live action shows, starting with Good Burger and obviously ending with the All That team up.Frank West, May 25, 2017, 02:24:16 pm

Does Kenan and Kel get its own movie, or is it rolled into the backstory of the Good Burger characters as an easter egg?

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Frank West on May 25, 2017, 06:17:00 pm

Avengers-style film franchise based on 90s nickelodeon live action shows, starting with Good Burger and obviously ending with the All That team up.Frank West, May 25, 2017, 02:24:16 pm

Does Kenan and Kel get its own movie, or is it rolled into the backstory of the Good Burger characters as an easter egg?Cleretic, May 25, 2017, 05:28:20 pm

They're the Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch in this scenario, where the rights to specifically "Kenan & Kel" are still held by SNL and Ben Stiller, respectively, who team up to try to make their own rival movie franchise, so they can only refer to the characters by their Good Burger character names.

(If you're wondering how Ben Stiller got the rights to Kel's name, he actually had a clause in the Mystery Men contract that required all his co-stars to sign over their likenesses to him.)

If any of you are ever animating or otherwise making something in the horror genre, and you need an authentic blood curdling scream, let me know. I will sit my five year old on the potty and release a centipede in the bathroom yet still nowhere near her.

its a wonder that evolution, the constant changing and branching of species over generations through random mutations and natural selection, could create something so wonderfully complicated and dynamic as the human dick

Title: Do you think El-P was talking about Huskar in his song EMG?
Post by: Spooks on May 30, 2017, 03:24:34 pm

Do you think El-P was talking about Huskar in his song EMG?

The song "EMG" from El-P's album "I'll Sleep When You're Dead" contains the following lyrics:

"Is my mommy in heaven?Well, she's definitely not hereNow run away and go play with this hatchet and flaming spear"

I think there's a high chance the lyrics here refer to the Dota 2 hero, Huskar, who is a durable carry and an initiator. His second ability, Flaming Spears, allows him to deal greater damage at the expense of his own health. This also follows back to the chorus of the song "Everything must go" as Huskar's life is draining constantly if he keeps Flaming Spears on Autocast.

The reference to hatchets is probably to another Dota 2 hero, Troll Warlord, who uses twin hatches to attack and whose species is "Troll" just like Huskar.

If this isn't proof enough, the line "Get on some butterfly to the fire shit" from the chorus is definitely a reference to the in-game item Butterfly, which is core to Huskar's build.

I assume the part about the mother is a little tongue in cheek as I assume nobody's mother would approve of them playing Dota 2, a highly addictive game with a toxic community.

I'm the ultimate Hangover fan. There's nothing I love more than waking up in a ditch somewhere near Moorabin with a splitting pain in my skull that I need to treat. Every chance I get I go whole hog in curing my hangover. I leave behind the lady in my bed and stagger into the kitchen. Then I gather a bunch of bullshit from the cupboards. Worcestershire sauce, pepper, apple cider vinegar, two oysters, a Ostritch Egg and some shitty brandy. I shake them together in that Martini thing and pour it into a pint mug. I then take my Ritual Blade and carve a glyph into the palm of my hand. Blood, still tainted with the regrets and Carlton Draught I dragged from yesterday, oozes into my awful brew. Everything has been stained a rusty brown. I dedicate the cure to the True Ancient One, Ashurnibabal, and let the liquid slither down my throat. The cacophony of overwhelming flavours no longer excites or revolts me. I feel only a stagnant calm. Another portion of my soul has been consumed. The pain and suffering of mortality subsides as Ashurnibabal grows in strength. It feeds off of me as I feed off the shitty omelette batter I crave. I am becoming little more than a thrall of this Cosmic Truth. Is the lady in my bed my wife, or just a stranger? Is there any difference any more? I slice up some fatty bacon and fry it in a pan with some mushrooms

I wrote this about 2 hours into a shift watching a bingo game, since they don't like it when you check your phone

Accidentally slapped journeyman faguar. Panic kissed to make up for it. In my haste, I was unable to tell if that tender kiss returned what I so indiscriminately slapped away.In any case, I deserve punishment for my wanton mouse clicks. Slap me.

Accidentally slapped journeyman faguar. Panic kissed to make up for it. In my haste, I was unable to tell if that tender kiss returned what I so indiscriminately slapped away.In any case, I deserve punishment for my wanton mouse clicks. Slap me.Malten, June 02, 2017, 09:17:28 pm

Joel and Ellie are surviving in the rubble a zombie apocalypse."It truly is The Last of Us" say Ellie to Joel as they are last surviving human.A survivor jump outside the rubble!"Go render into help!" Joel shout to Ellie and Ellie go and pick survivor up."What is your name?" Ellie renders question to Giorgio."My name is Giovanni Giorgio, but everybody calls me Giorgio." Giorgio said and they make a greeting.Suddenly clickers!All survivors of afraid as surround by clickers and about to die.Clicker makes a click."Is good to make a clicking!" Giorgio shout, so he put a click on the 24 track which then was synced to the Moog Modular.Suddenly robots!Robots use a click and they danube into a sound of the future.Robots transport everyone into the future, where no more of zombies and clickers, but only sound of the future.Joel and Ellie saved.

Joel and Ellie are surviving in the rubble a zombie apocalypse."It truly is The Last of Us" say Ellie to Joel as they are last surviving human.A survivor jump outside the rubble!"Go render into help!" Joel shout to Ellie and Ellie go and pick survivor up."What is your name?" Ellie renders question to Giorgio."My name is Giovanni Giorgio, but everybody calls me Giorgio." Giorgio said and they make a greeting.Suddenly clickers!All survivors of afraid as surround by clickers and about to die.Clicker makes a click."Is good to make a clicking!" Giorgio shout, so he put a click on the 24 track which then was synced to the Moog Modular.Suddenly robots!Robots use a click and they danube into a sound of the future.Robots transport everyone into the future, where no more of zombies and clickers, but only sound of the future.Joel and Ellie saved.

Ass discourse has rapidly evolved. big asses are good now, small asses are being left behind. if you've got a small ass you're in trouble. is this a result of ascendant black voices in social media, queer dialogue shifting discussion towards universal factors or do we all just eat too much now

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Is It Normal this Disgusting Giant Sherman Tank on June 09, 2017, 11:42:49 pm

I really enjoy owning and using a kitschy bier stein I bought as an afterthought at Munich airport five years ago.

in the cars universe they have a terrible yet popular series of movies about a world inhabited by their Central nervous systems running around independently, sometimes possessing lobotomised chassis' to get around and prolong their twisted parody of life. The Cars often theorise that they reproduce in some sort of nightmare factory, composed of the alien material 'flesh' and 'bone'. The Truth is far stranger

I'm covered in body glitter and ready to day drink until I get heat exhaustion. Let's ride.

(the renaissance festival is the only place where I'm allowed to drink in front of throngs of people and not get in trouble and I think that's beautiful. There's sharp things everywhere and THAT'S where they let me loose.)

New Fetish: Cuckquesting. Your wife and some guy with a bigger dick than you start fucking in a hidden locale and leave you some clues to where they're hiding. Can you find them and stop him cumming before it's too late?

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on June 15, 2017, 06:45:54 am

Dragon Quest, for being a series that tries to appeal to children, has some harmonically, rhythmically and melodically complex stuff, and it's almost all the stuff that has to do with the bad guys and fighting, while the stuff to do with the good guys is generally more according to earlier classical music conventions. It's a really cool design choice and only recently I've come to appreciate how good the sound design is

New Fetish: Cuckquesting. Your wife and some guy with a bigger dick than you start fucking in a hidden locale and leave you some clues to where they're hiding. Can you find them and stop him cumming before it's too late?GirlKisser420, June 15, 2017, 06:12:42 am

every cuckquesting story ends with the husband arriving just as the guy cums. some members of the community eventually grow tired of this unrealistic trope, flame wars break out. four new forums are born from the rubble

My coworker was a little surprised to learn that lake Michigan only was the left half, and even though there's a significant portion of water that connects Huron and Michigan, they are two different lakes.

What I did not tell her is that it's like Sonic the Hedgehog's eyes; even though there's a connector they're still considered two discrete eyeballs.

I'm usually pretty 'meh' about Oreos in general, but these are damn fantastic. Just the right combo of sour and a tiny bit salty. A coworker bought the fireworks ones which are interesting, but you might as well by a bag of pop rocks and cram that in your mouth with some regular Oreos.

I realized today that I somehow started using a very specific 'bye-bye' as a farewell, and for like fifteen minutes that was all I could think about. That's neither how I talk, nor how I want to talk, and it's a very specific intonation that I don't deviate from. So it had to come from somewhere, but where?

(https://public-media.smithsonianmag.com/filer/201303200300382189014070_339cb830f9_z.jpg)They had no business of their own to mind because they didn't belong to themselves any more. They belonged to the virus. They had to kill torture conquer enslave degrade as a mad dog has to bite. At Hiroshima all was lost.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on July 03, 2017, 12:13:42 pm

yam is probably one of the least useful words now that I've found out it can refer to four tubers and corms that are not yams as well as to yams, which are apparently of a really wide variety of tubers, some of which have really confusing names

edit: it'd make a good adjudicated guess fact, but it's just too baffling

yam is probably one of the least useful words now that I've found out it can refer to four tubers and corms that are not yams as well as to yams, which are apparently of a really wide variety of tubers, some of which have really confusing names

Welcome to the ambiguity inherent in language. See also "bug", and "Corn"

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on July 04, 2017, 01:20:42 am

yam is probably one of the least useful words now that I've found out it can refer to four tubers and corms that are not yams as well as to yams, which are apparently of a really wide variety of tubers, some of which have really confusing names

I keep having so many pointless thoughts I have to share that I keep forgetting that I need a pointless thought journal. If that's not a pointless thought in and of itself, I don't know what is.Spooks, July 17, 2017, 11:58:02 am

Journals for keeping random thoughts, ideas, and other biz rules, 100% recommend. Especially if you do any creative endeavors, you can stash ideas away for later. Or to laugh at later.

when did the internet switch from "fucked up, if true" to "big if true"

Muhammad Li should be a very common name but there aren't very many at all! nor are there many Li Muhans. Perhaps since there's at least a couple, they should be Some Greatests (as Muhammad *A*li was The).

a damsel with a dulcimer, in a vision once I saw; she was an Abyssinian maid, and on her dulcimer she played, singing "You're my wonderwall". Could I ignite within me her symphony and song to such deep delight 'twould win me and with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air (that sunny dome! Those caves of ice!) and all who heard would see them there, and all would cry beware, beware! those flashing eyes, and floating hair, guard a circle round her thrice, for she on honeydew hath fed, and drunk the almond milk of paradise.

I wonder how good birds fuck

you're a teenager reading hentai in math class by hiding the doujinshi inside the textbook but you're flipping the pages from right to left and everyone knows what you're doing and it's not sneaky at all, and also it's a test day and you forgot to wear clothes, ahaha

I'm watching the Top Gear Africa special where they try to find the source of the Nile and I know they exaggerate a lot, but I've been to Uganda and they're pretty fucking bang on what it's like to travel there. I've actually pretty much done the exact journey they did, Kampala to Fort Portal to Lake Edward through the tea plantations, the great roads and the shitty, shitty roads. Here are my Thoughts as I watch, because I want to talk about Uganda and I think they deserve some credit.

Kampala really does take most of a day to drive through and there really are that many of those vans, which are like a cross between a taxi and a bus - they'll go where you want, but you'll probably pick up other people on the way. You really can buy basically everything, including a million bananas for way less money than you think. I think the bit where Jeremy says "is this a chair leg," he's buying sugar cane. It's way too fibrous to eat but you can chew on it and the sugar will come out, which is okay until you're just left with a big inedible lump of fibres that burn your throat until you spit it out of the window. They give it to children as snacks for school.

The long distance roads are fantastic, although in my experience they were actually mostly built by the Chinese, and not, as suggested on the programme, the Swiss. As I understand it, it was part of the deal in return for mining rights. They're really good, although I did get stuck in quite a lot of roadworks while they were widening the roads.

As demonstrated, the speedbumps are perpetual (I think my driver said there were about 100/hour on the drive between Kampala and Kasese, where I stayed). They were also fucking huge. When you get off those main roads, as demonstrated, the roads are all on a spectrum between reasonably flat tracks to impassable because they're basically just muddy rivers alongside a 40 meter drop, via "more pothole than road."

Everywhere they stopped seems to be pretty authentic too. Top Gear might be a bunch of dickheads doing dumb shit, but they represented their subject with a level of accuracy that suprised and pleased me. There's basically nothing about this which I'm finding to be particularly misleading.

Supplemental thought: yep, every other building really is painted entirely yellow with MTN MOBILE MONEY written on it in big letters. Mobile phones are really big there - they kind of skipped computers entirely, and while the prices aren't much cheaper (I worked it out and I'd barely save anything by buying an iPhone there rather than here, maybe £100 or so at most) they have a huge supply of non-smart-phones that you can pick up for like £5-10. Pay as you go is big and you can buy top ups at any of those yellow buildings (or you have to find the rare red AirTel building if for some reason you don't go with MTN).

IT'S PAGE SIXTY NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINEin the Cursed Images thread but I have no idea what to post in order to commemorate it. I don't think sixty-nining is gross or negative in any way, really. Let's all be sex-positive instead.

Come to Loring Park for the Pigeon-Duck Summit on breadcrumbs. I, upon the grassy knoll, am considering throwing biscoff cookies into the mix, breaking their fragile alliance and ushering in bird wars 3

its really weird to see people post about punching nazis when all the other times they talk about how watching competitive tetris makes them nervous or somethingGirlKisser420, August 18, 2017, 06:33:59 pm

it really is very funny! but we can't gatekeep people deciding they want to finally be cool, we have to get them some edgy teen nazis to practice jabs on

I read some tweet a while ago, I think it was from Bakoon, that said never get your politics and hentai from the same place, and it worries me how many people across the entire political spectrum have done this

I just found out about Autosexuality, where you are sexually attracted to yourself. Can't make a doc about it since there's no forums or anything to say aside from 'I masturbated in front of a mirror' but it's gonna be a brain worm for like a week.

I just found out about Autosexuality, where you are sexually attracted to yourself. Can't make a doc about it since there's no forums or anything to say aside from 'I masturbated in front of a mirror' but it's gonna be a brain worm for like a week.GirlKisser420, August 23, 2017, 05:47:55 am

Have you checked DA (https://www.deviantart.com/popular-all-time/?section=&global=1&q=autosexual)?

this is fascinating. They're a sexuality oriented towards themselves, but they represent this with a persona or sparkledog that's different from that. I think in a lot of cases they're creating autosexual characters because they want to be representative of a possible identity rather than as a strictly personal thing, but still. I think it's mostly incompatible with depression so it's not going to have much of an online presence.

I don't know if there's enough basic normies here for a pop music thread in the music forum so I've come here to spread my opinion that Taylor Swift's new single is a fucking terrible load of shit. It starts out okay, basically like something that could have slipped in as one of 1989's less remarkable songs, but then that chorus hits. The one inexplicably following I'm So Sexy of all things, where she just repeats the same line a bunch without any real respect for all the things that make music music. Oh my god it's so bad. Then we slide into the shitty insults and the unbelievably cringy Old Taylor Is Dead bit. Witness was such a miserable flop that all she really needed to do to "win" the Katy Perry beef was to release something that was actually listenable and she didn't even manage that, like she had to actually try and fuck up that bad.

It's a shitty song and I'm hugely disappointed, but what gets me more than anything else is the concept. The idea that she's somehow trying to own the snake persona and be a bad bitch but at the same time needing to remind you how she was wronged, how it's the other guy's fault, Kanye made me do this you guys. It just feels a whole lot like that time when I was fifteen and lonely and I thought "Oh yeah I guess the world WANTS me to be a shutin nerd, I'm gonna watch My Little Pony because somehow fuck you" like the correct response to any of this dumb bullshit is to go all in. Like, she saw she was losing the moral high ground after the Famous thing and decided the best thing to do was to double down and be a bitch, I guess in the hope that much like politics, whoever can talk more shit will win and who really gives a shit about anyone who isn't either loving the mess or so devoted they'll literally refuse to believe you could possibly have done the wrong thing.

What's more, even if the damage control people are tellign the truth when they say releasing the album introduced with a Kanye diss track on the 10th anniversary of his mother's death, that's still a hugely stupid way to make yourself look like a garbage person. Fucking change it you dumbfucks. If it's intentional it's awful and if it's unintentional then it's stupid and neither of those are good looks.

Part of me hopes this will be like Shake It Off and turn out not to be representative of the quality/style of the full album, but even as a huge Swiftie apologist I'm having trouble finding anything good to say about this. She was always supposed to be a nice one who just wanted to have a wholesome happy time. Every part of this is so unlike everything that made me fall in love with her work in the first place. The song itself and all the context around it just feels like a mountain of huge mistakes that only serve to drain every ounce of good will I've built up towards her.

I could forgive most of it if it was at least a good song but honestly she's got a great voice and has shown to be a good songwriter and neither of those things showed up here.

__________________________________________________________(http://i.imgur.com/ThsERjb.png)92% of Teens have started listening to Gangster Rap. If you're one of the 8% who listens to Real Music, put this in your sig

There's nothing cooler aesthetically than cartoon dudes with just eyes and no face

__________________________________________________________(http://i.imgur.com/ThsERjb.png)92% of Teens have started listening to Gangster Rap. If you're one of the 8% who listens to Real Music, put this in your sig

I don't know if there's enough basic normies here for a pop music thread in the music forum so I've come here to spread my opinion that Taylor Swift's new single is a fucking terrible load of shit. It starts out okay, basically like something that could have slipped in as one of 1989's less remarkable songs, but then that chorus hits. The one inexplicably following I'm So Sexy of all things, where she just repeats the same line a bunch without any real respect for all the things that make music music. Oh my god it's so bad. Then we slide into the shitty insults and the unbelievably cringy Old Taylor Is Dead bit. Witness was such a miserable flop that all she really needed to do to "win" the Katy Perry beef was to release something that was actually listenable and she didn't even manage that, like she had to actually try and fuck up that bad.

It's a shitty song and I'm hugely disappointed, but what gets me more than anything else is the concept. The idea that she's somehow trying to own the snake persona and be a bad bitch but at the same time needing to remind you how she was wronged, how it's the other guy's fault, Kanye made me do this you guys. It just feels a whole lot like that time when I was fifteen and lonely and I thought "Oh yeah I guess the world WANTS me to be a shutin nerd, I'm gonna watch My Little Pony because somehow fuck you" like the correct response to any of this dumb bullshit is to go all in. Like, she saw she was losing the moral high ground after the Famous thing and decided the best thing to do was to double down and be a bitch, I guess in the hope that much like politics, whoever can talk more shit will win and who really gives a shit about anyone who isn't either loving the mess or so devoted they'll literally refuse to believe you could possibly have done the wrong thing.

What's more, even if the damage control people are tellign the truth when they say releasing the album introduced with a Kanye diss track on the 10th anniversary of his mother's death, that's still a hugely stupid way to make yourself look like a garbage person. Fucking change it you dumbfucks. If it's intentional it's awful and if it's unintentional then it's stupid and neither of those are good looks.

Part of me hopes this will be like Shake It Off and turn out not to be representative of the quality/style of the full album, but even as a huge Swiftie apologist I'm having trouble finding anything good to say about this. She was always supposed to be a nice one who just wanted to have a wholesome happy time. Every part of this is so unlike everything that made me fall in love with her work in the first place. The song itself and all the context around it just feels like a mountain of huge mistakes that only serve to drain every ounce of good will I've built up towards her.

I could forgive most of it if it was at least a good song but honestly she's got a great voice and has shown to be a good songwriter and neither of those things showed up here.moooo566, August 25, 2017, 07:27:02 pm

I bartendered last night at some Dad's 50th birthday and the thrust of the event was that they hired a cover band but the birthday dad did the singing while insanely plastered. The failed attempts to sing Living On a Prayer because he kept trying to make up lyrics about "Johnny Had a 6 Inch Co-ock" will never leave my brain. I wish I didn't serve him tequila shots, although I do kinda respect the total Power Move the whole thing was.

Our account manager at an accreditation scheme we use at work writes "pls" rather than please in business emails and uses it l. Every email has it two or three times and it takes me right out of the moment.

Our account manager at an accreditation scheme we use at work writes "pls" rather than please in business emails and uses it l. Every email has it two or three times and it takes me right out of the moment.moooo566, September 25, 2017, 11:14:28 am

When you learn about color mixing in kindergarten, like 'red+blue=purple' or 'yellow+blue=green', that doesn't really mean anything about the colors themselves, or the things that are making the colors, it's teaching about a quirk of the human eye, that two colors at once will light up your photoreceptors in the same way that another color would. But I mean, your body has temperature sensors that detect 'cold' and 'warm', and when both of those sensors light up at once, you feel 'hot', but I wouldn't say that 'cold+warm=hot' in the same way you might say 'red+blue=purple'.

What would it be like to perceive a red+blue thing as simultaneously red and blue, and not as purple?

would probably make me a huge arsehole when all I'm doing is asking someone to come look at a leaky dishwasher, or asking someone if tomorrow morning is okay for the engineer to come look at their leaky dishwasher, but there's one small nagging voice in the back of my head that says I should do it just because I can.

I used to go to these growing up! The best one was called "When You Drink Coffee, You Need Fried Bananas" and sold pisang goreng (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisang_goreng), shrimp crackers, and bottles of pop. Good times.e:(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Pisang_goreng_in_a_basket.jpg)

Almost every month, Cosmopolitan publishes a list of 10 or 24 or 101 or 38 "hot" "new" sex tips. I took a quick look at the recent covers, and I'd estimate that every year they're putting out 300 sex tips. If they've been at this since the late '90s or so (I actually wasn't able to get a good idea of when they started printing these articles) then we are looking at 5000-6000 sex tips, almost all of which are probably very bad (https://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/23-truly-terrible-sex-tips?utm_term=.ex1JOQeXy#.uk5axzgNk).

While we're on website ideas I've had an idea about kumquatxop.xyz since forever. It'd basically be Rainy Mood with half a dozen kumquat audio tracks playing at the same time, randomly fading in and out of each other. One can be just "YEAH"s, another just "UUH"s and so on. That or regular ambient noise with a random chance of a kumquat noise happening every once in a while. If you have normal ambient sounds, make sure this is present: (https://i.imgur.com/IyrteAX.png)

While we're on website ideas I've had an idea about kumquatxop.xyz since forever. It'd basically be Rainy Mood with half a dozen kumquat audio tracks playing at the same time, randomly fading in and out of each other. One can be just "YEAH"s, another just "UUH"s and so on. That or regular ambient noise with a random chance of a kumquat noise happening every once in a while. If you have normal ambient sounds, make sure this is present:(https://i.imgur.com/IyrteAX.png)Spooks, October 31, 2017, 07:29:05 pm

Hmmmmmmmmm.... yeah, I could see how that would be fun. Tell you what, if somebody can provide me with the audio tracks (I'd probably need 12+, and they'd all have to loop reasonably well, I'd take it from there).

Edit: Although it might be all for naught, since I let the domain expire.

I once went on a cruise with a bunch of Australians and my new uncle Paul taught me how bad Japanese tourists are at swimming and that some people just need to have a cuppa concrete and harden the fuck up.

I've started genuinely appreciating AVGN videos again. There's a sort of weird, earnest charm to them, and his recent stuff shows how much he's developed since his early days. This recent one he did for halloween was pretty good. His side project, Board James, was also really interesting and surprisingly funny for how dark it got. He's very passionate about these kinds of videos, and it shows. I've always loved internet reviews with a lot of passion put into them. My favourite series of youtube videos to this day is Dark Cloud Comedic Review by Pattythedog615. A lot of care and passion went into making those videos, and while they're not the most impressive or original videos I've ever seen, they have this great wholesome sense of humour and they're a great window into late 2000's early 2010's youtube. It's very clearly just a guy reviewing a game he really liked and putting whatever he personally thought would be funny into the videos, so it's really very personable and charming. I recommend anyone watching them if they wanna see what I mean.

It doesn't seem to be available in digital download on amazon. I don't even know where around me I can buy physical CDs anymore except shitty greatest hits albums and Now Thats What I Call Summer Hits 2014, and if I buy it online it wouldn't even arrive until Monday now, and even if I did that I don't actually have a way of playing a CD or ripping one because I kind of assumed that I wouldn't need to do that in 2017.

The only option seems to be itunes and itunes is possibly the worst thing I've ever deliberately installed, and I say that as someone who's used both uPlay and McAfee, so I'd rather not curse my new computer with it too.

It doesn't seem to be available in digital download on amazon. I don't even know where around me I can buy physical CDs anymore except shitty greatest hits albums and Now Thats What I Call Summer Hits 2014, and if I buy it online it wouldn't even arrive until Monday now, and even if I did that I don't actually have a way of playing a CD or ripping one because I kind of assumed that I wouldn't need to do that in 2017.

The only option seems to be itunes and itunes is possibly the worst thing I've ever deliberately installed, and I say that as someone who's used both uPlay and McAfee, so I'd rather not curse my new computer with it too.moooo566, November 10, 2017, 01:26:27 pm

Dear GAME DEVELOPERS, enough with the DAD GAMES. I don't want to play as a DAD, I don't have KIDS! Not everyone has kids! But you know what? Everyone has parents! How about some CHILD GAMES, huh? What if, in L.A. Noire for instance, it was YOUR MOM that GOT FINGERED in the precinct? It would be fun. Think about it.

I've slowly started realizing that my dreams being as a rule so realistic that I wake up and forget they weren't what happened might be a result of my brain trying to prank me.Cleretic, November 13, 2017, 06:30:01 am

I have the same thing!! Most of my dreams are just me walking around with a friend. Sometimes I'll even browse the Internet for a bit and do some chores.

It can take me a full hour on a slow day to "remember" what was and wasn't a dream.

So do I send the blackmail money to you, or just drop it off at the fifth stall at the stadium, ooooorSanguinary Novel, December 10, 2017, 06:22:11 pm

I may have used this phrase incorrectly. What I mean was not like 'real name' but like oh look x-person made a post and this can go into the file about other things I know about this person and when I browse this forum, I'm not like "oh some random asshole posted this". Its like linked to that person and their account? I'm sorry if that doesn't make much sense.

I'm the kind of ESL that can read and write but also fucks up phrases like this and mispronounces many many words.

I was thinking of getting laser eye surgery but a few days ago someone mentioned that it worked great for her but during the procedure she could smell her retinas burning and now I've never wanted to do anything less.

1) I got a torch but I put it down and it's too dark to find it again now I need to read what this next thing is.2) should I feel insulted that I've got shampoo and a toothbrush or is he just making sure the necessities are taken care of?3) Its the season of chocolate but there's this weird squishy orange thing in the bottom?

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on December 31, 2017, 02:13:29 am

How come Princess Peach, a human, is the regent of the Mushroom Kingdom, which seems to be an ethno-state of almost entirely mushroom people. I want to know about the political marriages that led to this situation

How come Princess Peach, a human, is the regent of the Mushroom Kingdom, which seems to be an ethno-state of almost entirely mushroom people. I want to know about the political marriages that led to this situationA Meat, December 31, 2017, 02:13:29 am

I've been trying to figure out the geopolitical situation of Mario's world for a while now.

The Goombas seem to be an overthrown and subjugated nation, the Yoshis are a native tribal society that the Mushroom Kingdom pretends to respect but constantly mistreats, the Bob-Ombs are surprisingly democratic when peaceful but overly inclined to wage war for no reason, Bowser is the leader of a dictatorial nearby nation-state that has radicalist support from some marginalized minorities in the Mushroom Kingdom's borders. The Shy Guys are definitely a paramilitary organization beholden to nobody.

The fact that Odyssey proves that Peach (although perhaps not Mario) is likely a native of the Metro Kingdom halfway across the world clearly factors in, but I'm not sure how.

there's theoretically a 'good' period of the Offspring's discography but I don't think it's worth finding it.GirlKisser420, January 05, 2018, 05:19:33 pm

I don't remember exactly, but I think it was before they came up with that flaming skull logo. You know the one James Ellsworth had tattooed on his shoulder? You're right though it's not worth looking into.

two (now-elderly) british chums sit by a roaring fire, discussing schoolmates from years gone back. What about, ah, Chesterton, the first one proffers. Gobbled up in the Alien Vore Wars, says the second. Sorry? says the first, who is hard of hearing.

Eaten! He was eaten! bellows the second. Well I never, from the first. Cambridge man through and through.

I had a completely pointless thought I was going to post here but now I've forgotten it.

edit: i've found another. I've had a second monitor sitting on my floor for three months because the table in the room I moved to wasnt large enough for two, but I finally got around to getting a proper desk and I forgot how great having two monitors is.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Is It Normal this Disgusting Giant Sherman Tank on January 13, 2018, 04:45:00 pm

I'm surprised nobody's written a song parody about scientology called "Down Wit' OT3".

So I'm drinking coffee because there is no alcohol left and several hours of D&D and all I can think about is that this coffee place named their chain Beaners and it stayed that way for several years before someone thought that might not be the greatest name

Dang I think this twitter account I follow where the av is Homer Simpson wearing a beanie and sunglasses that exclusively posts screencaps of the simpsons with captions about the flat earth and chemtrails isn’t a joke

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on January 21, 2018, 03:21:11 am

How isn't there a Hitman game set in a high fantasy setting?

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on January 21, 2018, 03:59:30 am

It's so goddamn appropriate that Paul Elam's MRA origin story is his mother trying to help him feel better by giving him diarrhea medicine and him petulantly refusing, to the point that he had to be physically restrained.

I'm kind of still stuck on the moment I discovered it was Fall Out Boy rather than Fallout Boy. It's been a few years and it's just in the corner of my mind, poking its head out when I'm least expecting it.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Shell Game on January 23, 2018, 02:50:39 pm

Yes, but there is specifically a correct religion and it's Egyptian polytheism, so basically Akhenaten fucked everybody out of knowing what happens when they die.Cleretic, January 27, 2018, 06:19:29 am

But nobody seems to talk about it or really reference it besides a few plot points where it's relevant. Not to mention later parts like 5D's where you have things based on a whole bunch of other mythologies show up. It's weird having things based on Loki or the Nazca Lines when those things don't exist

I was doing the dishes today while listening to the F Plus when my mom walked in. Good thing i managed to pause when I did, otherwise she would have learned a lot about cum-munion from Bunnybread and Dr. John Kitchen

I'd enjoy reading fiction more if I couldn't tell how much of the book was left. I have a general idea of what to expect based on the number of pages remaining, and that ruins a bit of the surprise for me. So I really want an e-reader that allows you to hide page numbers for certain books, but a few minutes of searching indicates that I am the only person who cares about this on a planet with seven billion people.

I'd enjoy reading fiction more if I couldn't tell how much of the book was left. I have a general idea of what to expect based on the number of pages remaining, and that ruins a bit of the surprise for me. So I really want an e-reader that allows you to hide page numbers for certain books, but a few minutes of searching indicates that I am the only person who cares about this on a planet with seven billion people.Healslime, February 02, 2018, 06:54:34 pm

My kindle lets me do this. It may just be a feature that seemed so minor it's not worth posting about online.

My friend's bathroom exhaust fan is also a Bluetooth speaker, and every time you turn on the light it does a little chime that sounds exactly like the piano part of A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carleton and I ALWAYS have to finish the piano line.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on February 04, 2018, 05:26:23 pm

Ever since I started learning about phonology and grammar I've had to try really hard not to be insufferable about telling people the things I know

I had an argument with my sister last week when she wouldn't accept that the "Ng" in "Nguyen" was the ŋ sound

And then earlier today on here I saw someone make a joke using IPA transcription and in one two syllable word they didn't separate the two syllables, and then in the other they did but they didn't follow the maximal onset principle

Why are such unimportant things so annoying to me

It's not even that other people don't know about it that annoys me it's that I have to constantly restrain myself from bringing it up because no one fucking cares

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on February 10, 2018, 05:39:46 pm

Ever since I started learning about phonology and grammar I've had to try really hard not to be insufferable about telling people the things I know

I had an argument with my sister last week when she wouldn't accept that the "Ng" in "Nguyen" was the ŋ sound

And then earlier today on here I saw someone make a joke using IPA transcription and in one two syllable word they didn't separate the two syllables, and then in the other they did but they didn't follow the maximal onset principle

Why are such unimportant things so annoying to me

It's not even that other people don't know about it that annoys me it's that I have to constantly restrain myself from bringing it up because no one fucking caresWrought, February 10, 2018, 08:01:39 am

Fun fact, schwa comes from the Hebrew diacritic shva, which most likely never made the ə sound, and for sure doesn't make that sound in Modern Hebrew.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Is It Normal this Disgusting Giant Sherman Tank on February 14, 2018, 01:51:44 am

I don't understand how anyone who isn't gluten intolerant can take those low carbohydrate, bread = evil diets seriously when the last ten thousand years of human evolution were fueled by the abundant calories provided by the carbs in wheat, corn, and rice.

One of my co-workers revealed he annually watches the Canadian curling championships and sent me a link to the Tim Horton's Brier. I just want to dress up as a soccer hooligan but for Alberta or something and start shit at work one day.

One of my co-workers revealed he annually watches the Canadian curling championships and sent me a link to the Tim Horton's Brier. I just want to dress up as a soccer hooligan but for Alberta or something and start shit at work one day. M/fuk'n Sanguinary Novel, February 14, 2018, 09:06:57 am

What the cuck did you just cucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the cuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my cucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, cucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re cucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your cucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re cucking dead, kiddo.

one of those maps where they overlay one country on another to show you how big australia is but its lesotho on south africa.

edit: question, when i drink alone i tend to completely forget ive got video games open on my other monitor and start looking at interesting things instead, is drunk moo more cultured or just easily distracted?

One of my co-workers revealed he annually watches the Canadian curling championships and sent me a link to the Tim Horton's Brier. I just want to dress up as a soccer hooligan but for Alberta or something and start shit at work one day. M/fuk'n Sanguinary Novel, February 14, 2018, 09:06:57 am

There is so much content in the category of "redditors ruining their lives by giving literally all of their money to something and/or their wives divorcing them over it" and for the life of me I can't find anywhere that's aggregating it and it's a shame because it's all so fucking good

There is so much content in the category of "redditors ruining their lives by giving literally all of their money to something and/or their wives divorcing them over it" and for the life of me I can't find anywhere that's aggregating it and it's a shame because it's all so fucking goodWrought, February 27, 2018, 08:54:40 am

There is so much content in the category of "redditors ruining their lives by giving literally all of their money to something and/or their wives divorcing them over it" and for the life of me I can't find anywhere that's aggregating it and it's a shame because it's all so fucking goodWrought, February 27, 2018, 08:54:40 am

You could probably make a random generator and it would be the same thing.

There is so much content in the category of "redditors ruining their lives by giving literally all of their money to something and/or their wives divorcing them over it" and for the life of me I can't find anywhere that's aggregating it and it's a shame because it's all so fucking goodWrought, February 27, 2018, 08:54:40 am

There is so much content in the category of "redditors ruining their lives by giving literally all of their money to something and/or their wives divorcing them over it" and for the life of me I can't find anywhere that's aggregating it and it's a shame because it's all so fucking goodWrought, February 27, 2018, 08:54:40 am

the collection (https://imgur.com/a/RdTiF)the original post seems to have been destroyed but the saga is well documented

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Shell Game on February 27, 2018, 01:25:42 pm

There is so much content in the category of "redditors ruining their lives by giving literally all of their money to something and/or their wives divorcing them over it" and for the life of me I can't find anywhere that's aggregating it and it's a shame because it's all so fucking goodWrought, February 27, 2018, 08:54:40 am

There is so much content in the category of "redditors ruining their lives by giving literally all of their money to something and/or their wives divorcing them over it" and for the life of me I can't find anywhere that's aggregating it and it's a shame because it's all so fucking goodWrought, February 27, 2018, 08:54:40 am

Bitcoin cost me my marriage is a good example: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7m15em/after_9_years_together_bitcoin_has_cost_me_my/It is partly tragic because this guy ruins his family's financial situation but also hilariously moronic because he gets upset that his marriage falls apart after he invests a hundred thousand dollars into something his wife explicitly forbade him to.I ended up searching the phrase "ruined my marriage" on reddit, and this genuinely seems like it might be a good concept for a doc. There's a lot of variety here, as people have blamed everything from call of duty nazi zombies to punching their mother in law in the face for ruining their marriage.

Doc please!! I'd even enjoy an entire doc on "Bitcoin Ruined My Marriage", because although Bitcoin is the lede, there's always some other dumbass thing these idiots are doing to cause divorce that comes out in the post. Like "I spent our child's college savings on Bitcoin. Also my wife tells me not wiping my asshole is gross, but touching the butt is gay!"

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on February 28, 2018, 08:07:00 am

Doc please!! I'd even enjoy an entire doc on "Bitcoin Ruined My Marriage", because although Bitcoin is the lede, there's always some other dumbass thing these idiots are doing to cause divorce that comes out in the post. Like "I spent our child's college savings on Bitcoin. Also my wife tells me not wiping my asshole is gross, but touching the butt is gay!"Sangry Novel, February 28, 2018, 07:41:26 am

With cryptocurrency obsessives you never know what kind of madness you'll find when you dive into their psyche, because it's encrypted, also because there's a whole lot of strange thinking and poor decisions.

now for my thought: is there a cryptocurrency specifically for conspiracy theorists?

Also a few people in the comments are suggesting that particular "I spent an irresponsible amount of money on bitcoin and ruined my marriage" could be fake because some of the numbers don't make sense but I've seen at least two other things to the same effect so it hardly matters

Apparently the two things on Reddit most threatened with ruination are marriages and the childhoods of 30 somethings

Trying to get to sleep, and thought about that time in high school my creative writing/debate teacher gave me the first part of his novel to read. It was some serious proto-MRA trash about a dystopian matriarchal society where all men were second-class citizens and were strictly forbidden from sex. Like for real had a graphic scene with the main character masturbating with a "black box" so the lady police wouldn't know.

I just realized how fucked up that was to give to a high school student. And speaks fucking volumes about what kind of person he was.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Is It Normal this Disgusting Giant Sherman Tank on March 01, 2018, 04:29:40 am

Trying to get to sleep, and thought about that time in high school my creative writing/debate teacher gave me the first part of his novel to read. It was some serious proto-MRA trash about a dystopian matriarchal society where all men were second-class citizens and were strictly forbidden from sex. Like for real had a graphic scene with the main character masturbating with a "black box" so the lady police wouldn't know.

I just realized how fucked up that was to give to a high school student. And speaks fucking volumes about what kind of person he was.Sangry Novel, February 28, 2018, 10:57:44 pm

Trying to get to sleep, and thought about that time in high school my creative writing/debate teacher gave me the first part of his novel to read. It was some serious proto-MRA trash about a dystopian matriarchal society where all men were second-class citizens and were strictly forbidden from sex. Like for real had a graphic scene with the main character masturbating with a "black box" so the lady police wouldn't know.

I just realized how fucked up that was to give to a high school student. And speaks fucking volumes about what kind of person he was.Sangry Novel, February 28, 2018, 10:57:44 pm

Well Lemon, I was a turbo awkward goober when I was in high school, so I said it was interesting and smiled my way through the conversation. The reading itself was vaguely uncomfortable and bad in a way I couldn't describe at the time, but I thought that was because I was probably wrong and just didn't read enough dystopian fiction to make a comment. I distinctly remember him asking me if I got the metaphor when the main character walking down a narrow, moist red hall to approach the matriarch council. He was one of the nerdy teachers in school, and when you're a teen (and an idiot), that holds a lot of value. He lent me Babylon 5, but he also lent me Y: The Last Man, which should have been a real red flag there. Looking back as an adult, it's kinda a terrifying insight to how teacher-student abuse happens, and how that power and authority makes you a real piece of shit in that situation.

I was at school and I was thinking about what if I wanted to teach in Asia as a career, and somehow that train of thought led me to "I have to look up and see whether there's an /r/gaijin once I get home". At first I was expecting just a bunch of shitposts about how it's not like how my japanese animes said it was, but then I thought about it more and I realized it might be a decent support network for foreigners living in Japan, as, to my understanding, it can be a very difficult and at times unfriendly society to acclimate to.Unfortunately it is just shitposts including videos of people eating japanese snack food and going "oooh woooow it's not the same as this country i live in several thousand miles away" and another one of someone getting a wild deer drunk.It looks like /r/japanlife is a better subreddit for what I was hoping for, but even that has a thread asking for good places to listen to "anime music".I'm scared of traveling and I don't know how well I'd actually do in the country even if I do learn the language or how well I'd do on my own, but I'd like to teach English there. There are other people talking about this goal in the japanlife subreddit, but japan as a society can be very xenophobic from what I've heard and I want to teach students that foreigners aren't people you need to be scared or distrustful of. I don't know. It's 1:30 am and I haven't slept well recently, but this is a life goal that feels good and isn't totally out of my reach.

I was at school and I was thinking about what if I wanted to teach in Asia as a career, and somehow that train of thought led me to "I have to look up and see whether there's an /r/gaijin once I get home". At first I was expecting just a bunch of shitposts about how it's not like how my japanese animes said it was, but then I thought about it more and I realized it might be a decent support network for foreigners living in Japan, as, to my understanding, it can be a very difficult and at times unfriendly society to acclimate to.Unfortunately it is just shitposts including videos of people eating japanese snack food and going "oooh woooow it's not the same as this country i live in several thousand miles away" and another one of someone getting a wild deer drunk.It looks like /r/japanlife is a better subreddit for what I was hoping for, but even that has a thread asking for good places to listen to "anime music".I'm scared of traveling and I don't know how well I'd actually do in the country even if I do learn the language or how well I'd do on my own, but I'd like to teach English there. There are other people talking about this goal in the japanlife subreddit, but japan as a society can be very xenophobic from what I've heard and I want to teach students that foreigners aren't people you need to be scared or distrustful of. I don't know. It's 1:30 am and I haven't slept well recently, but this is a life goal that feels good and isn't totally out of my reach.Wrought, March 01, 2018, 11:33:33 pm

I have a friend who is currently living the dream teaching English in Japan, and recently she got to be on national television! The way she described it was that white people are kind of viewed as toys in Japan, and "Japanese TV is pretty bad about twisting or falsifying the contents of interviews with foreigners. ". But hey, if you've got a moderately thick skin and don't take things too personally, it can be fun. She's having fun, you can have fun, fucking go for it!

My pointless thought of the day was that every tiny point of light in the sky is a fusion reaction of unimaginable magnitude beamed across distances of unimaginable magnitude and I almost fell off my bike.

I was at school and I was thinking about what if I wanted to teach in Asia as a career, and somehow that train of thought led me to "I have to look up and see whether there's an /r/gaijin once I get home". At first I was expecting just a bunch of shitposts about how it's not like how my japanese animes said it was, but then I thought about it more and I realized it might be a decent support network for foreigners living in Japan, as, to my understanding, it can be a very difficult and at times unfriendly society to acclimate to.Unfortunately it is just shitposts including videos of people eating japanese snack food and going "oooh woooow it's not the same as this country i live in several thousand miles away" and another one of someone getting a wild deer drunk.It looks like /r/japanlife is a better subreddit for what I was hoping for, but even that has a thread asking for good places to listen to "anime music".I'm scared of traveling and I don't know how well I'd actually do in the country even if I do learn the language or how well I'd do on my own, but I'd like to teach English there. There are other people talking about this goal in the japanlife subreddit, but japan as a society can be very xenophobic from what I've heard and I want to teach students that foreigners aren't people you need to be scared or distrustful of. I don't know. It's 1:30 am and I haven't slept well recently, but this is a life goal that feels good and isn't totally out of my reach.Wrought, March 01, 2018, 11:33:33 pm

I would reccomend teaching in South Korea instead of Japan if you're open to it. Feel free to pm me about TESL work.

a trans autistic mentally ill homeless teen girl sent me a message on tumblr about how bad it was that yet another popular funny tumblr blog turned out to be run by fascists, and it took everything in my power not to tell her that I'm neither popular nor funny

Brain, brain please. Please focus on the task at hand. You're just tracing a thing in illustrator you donk, it's not even that hard!!!

Also, I wonder if I could track my attention span fluctuations based on the number of posts I make in this thread. Or just shitpost in general*

*everything is a shitpost

Edit 1: I wish the company I work for could do work in Hell and Bad Axe. "Remember to Vote for Hell's Students May 8th!" or "Proposal 1 is Totally Bad Axe for your Students!". Not that I would get to make the campaign materials metal, but I can also appreciate the humor of a very sanitized trifold with "Increase funding to encourage students to attend Hell's Schools"

Sure, a smidgen could be 1/32 of a tsp, but there's no way you would even taste that. That's 50s-60s recipe spice addition to your frankfurters to make them more exotic.Sanguinary Novel?, March 14, 2018, 08:46:52 pm

I think it depends on the potency of the ingredient (https://thefpl.us/episode/259)

JET Alumni living in Japan making a video about Aokigahara forest: "So Aokigahara forest is really creepy because the rocky terrain means that the trees don't grow straight and there are lots of open crevices. It's infamously known as the "Japanese Suicide Forest" because a lot of people come to take their lives here, to the point where the prefecture's government has stopped releasing the statistics about how many suicides there are here annually in order to stave off publicity. It's very quiet because there's very wildlife out here in the way of animals, and that plus the strange scenery makes the forest feel very mysterious and unwelcoming."

Butthole Youtuber who throws fish at cars and plush pokeballs at police officers: "HOW'S IT GOING BROS I'M IN THE JAPANESE KILL YOURSELF FOREST WHOAH DUDE THIS IS SO SCARY UHHUHUH OH SHIT THERE'S A DEAD BODY OUT HERE BRO WHOOAAAH OH SHIT THE DEAD BODY'S PANTS FELL OFF HAHAHA SIIICK OH NO NOW I'M FUCKING THE DEAD BODY HAHAHA THIS IS MESSED UP hey guys i'm very sorry for fucking that dead body i really didn't mean it and it'll never happen again please like and subscribe brofist"

I've gotten so much goddamn cut glass plates, serving dishes, bowls, and fucking just glass everything from both grandparents. What the hell happened in the 40s-60s that cut glass was all the rage?

Also, I've said this before, but fucking mercy on you if you're the single lady in the family, because you will get absolutely all of this stuff. You will become the dumping ground for things people are very uncomfortable throwing away because "you probably need it". Also, thanks grandma for throwing away every single family photo slide from when my dad, aunt, and uncle were kids but keeping the pink glass candy bowl? Although I have to give her credit, she is fucking bound and determined to make sure the kids and grandkids have as little to deal with when she passes away, because that house is downright spartan now.

JET Alumni living in Japan making a video about Aokigahara forest: "So Aokigahara forest is really creepy because the rocky terrain means that the trees don't grow straight and there are lots of open crevices. It's infamously known as the "Japanese Suicide Forest" because a lot of people come to take their lives here, to the point where the prefecture's government has stopped releasing the statistics about how many suicides there are here annually in order to stave off publicity. It's very quiet because there's very wildlife out here in the way of animals, and that plus the strange scenery makes the forest feel very mysterious and unwelcoming."

Butthole Youtuber who throws fish at cars and plush pokeballs at police officers: "HOW'S IT GOING BROS I'M IN THE JAPANESE KILL YOURSELF FOREST WHOAH DUDE THIS IS SO SCARY UHHUHUH OH SHIT THERE'S A DEAD BODY OUT HERE BRO WHOOAAAH OH SHIT THE DEAD BODY'S PANTS FELL OFF HAHAHA SIIICK OH NO NOW I'M FUCKING THE DEAD BODY HAHAHA THIS IS MESSED UP hey guys i'm very sorry for fucking that dead body i really didn't mean it and it'll never happen again please like and subscribe brofist"Wrought, March 18, 2018, 12:21:16 am

My favorite part of that video is that they played some kinda fucking cheesy 'what did we learn today' music/whimsically mournful tunes at the end when they were talking about the body they saw and 'how fucking sick it is' and how they won't be able to sleep tonight.

JET Alumni living in Japan making a video about Aokigahara forest: "So Aokigahara forest is really creepy because the rocky terrain means that the trees don't grow straight and there are lots of open crevices. It's infamously known as the "Japanese Suicide Forest" because a lot of people come to take their lives here, to the point where the prefecture's government has stopped releasing the statistics about how many suicides there are here annually in order to stave off publicity. It's very quiet because there's very wildlife out here in the way of animals, and that plus the strange scenery makes the forest feel very mysterious and unwelcoming."

Butthole Youtuber who throws fish at cars and plush pokeballs at police officers: "HOW'S IT GOING BROS I'M IN THE JAPANESE KILL YOURSELF FOREST WHOAH DUDE THIS IS SO SCARY UHHUHUH OH SHIT THERE'S A DEAD BODY OUT HERE BRO WHOOAAAH OH SHIT THE DEAD BODY'S PANTS FELL OFF HAHAHA SIIICK OH NO NOW I'M FUCKING THE DEAD BODY HAHAHA THIS IS MESSED UP hey guys i'm very sorry for fucking that dead body i really didn't mean it and it'll never happen again please like and subscribe brofist"Wrought, March 18, 2018, 12:21:16 am

My favorite part of that video is that they played some kinda fucking cheesy 'what did we learn today' music/whimsically mournful tunes at the end when they were talking about the body they saw and 'how fucking sick it is' and how they won't be able to sleep tonight.Seth "Slimy" Rollins, March 18, 2018, 02:38:27 pm

The "my youtube royalty free music" folder on everyone's computer has two folders inside it labelled "happy" and "regretful of my actions"

I emailed the director of a movie I saw and liked recently because I saw it had a lot of negative reviews and I wanted to offer my encouragements. She emailed back asking some stuff and I sent another email back and in this latest one she sent me, the last sentence in the email is "I am coming! :)"

I know the only reason that's there is because English isn't her first language and she probably got some context wrong or meant something else but forgot how to say it but getting an email from someone in Japan saying "I am coming! :)" at 1 am is scary in a deep deep way that I can't explain or understand.

I started thinking about whether my dick was the normal size, since I live in a metric country but everyone talks about them in terms of inches, so I was lost on mentally measuring it up. fortunately I remembered that 6 inches is the standard movement distance in warhammer 40k and was like yeah, my dick's about the same as that. how's your day been

I'm sad they're phasing out pee cakes at work. I'm going to miss that feeling of accomplishment after urinating, it was more than I'd get from doing my job most days.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Shell Game on March 20, 2018, 09:21:30 am

I'm sad they're phasing out pee cakes at work. I'm going to miss that feeling of accomplishment after urinating, it was more than I'd get from doing my job most days.Jackal Flapnasty, March 20, 2018, 04:33:29 am

another industry killed by millennials? you decide!

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on March 20, 2018, 09:42:18 am

I'm sad they're phasing out pee cakes at work. I'm going to miss that feeling of accomplishment after urinating, it was more than I'd get from doing my job most days.Jackal Flapnasty, March 20, 2018, 04:33:29 am

I emailed the director of a movie I saw and liked recently because I saw it had a lot of negative reviews and I wanted to offer my encouragements. She emailed back asking some stuff and I sent another email back and in this latest one she sent me, the last sentence in the email is "I am coming! :)"

I know the only reason that's there is because English isn't her first language and she probably got some context wrong or meant something else but forgot how to say it but getting an email from someone in Japan saying "I am coming! :)" at 1 am is scary in a deep deep way that I can't explain or understand.Wrought, March 19, 2018, 11:14:21 pm

As you know, Netflix usually take anime, but they admit "Behind THE COVE" as World Wide distribution movie. It is very rare case as independent documentary.UCLA and Colorado University also used this movie at their event.Many people say this movie is very Controversial and educational.

I hope your University also use this social issue movie with me at event.

OKAY EVIDENTLY THERE WAS NO MISTRANSLATION OR MISUNDERSTANDING WHATSOEVER AND SHE WANTS TO PRESENT THE FILM AT MY UNIVERSITY

...there's a graphic designer position open for Llewellyn Worldwide which apparently "is the country’s oldest and largest independent publisher of books on the New Age, Mind Body Spirit, alternative spirituality, esoteric literature, and the paranormal, celebrating more than a century of publishing books and related products."

I can't decide if that would be the best job or the most infuriating job.

...there's a graphic designer position open for Llewellyn Worldwide which apparently "is the country’s oldest and largest independent publisher of books on the New Age, Mind Body Spirit, alternative spirituality, esoteric literature, and the paranormal, celebrating more than a century of publishing books and related products."

...there's a graphic designer position open for Llewellyn Worldwide which apparently "is the country’s oldest and largest independent publisher of books on the New Age, Mind Body Spirit, alternative spirituality, esoteric literature, and the paranormal, celebrating more than a century of publishing books and related products."

I don't know, being the stone-cold sober designer for tripped out people would be fascinating and frustrating. My real concerns are if they publish garbage natural remedies like homeopathy, which I'm very, very morally against.

...there's a graphic designer position open for Llewellyn Worldwide which apparently "is the country’s oldest and largest independent publisher of books on the New Age, Mind Body Spirit, alternative spirituality, esoteric literature, and the paranormal, celebrating more than a century of publishing books and related products."

I say go for it. If you get saddled with something you disagree with you can make noise or subvert it in some way. Regular graphic design work can be hard to get, and at least you'd have a good story. Best case scenario they know the score and it's all fun and harmless for you. Of course I'm comfortable making a scene at work if things get out of hand, so maybe that's not good advice for you. Still good luck on the job search.

The upvote harvest has been scarce this year. I appreciate that our subreddit will never be as popular as /r/funny or /r/kotakuinaction, but we've harvested less content this cycle than any previous cycle recorded in the archives. My mods have begun staggering content to provide the illusion of life, hoping that the image of a lively community will be seen as an invitation to participate. The posters do not wish to post in the subreddit proper anymore, largely relegating themselves to the discord server. That damnable server has tormented me ever since its creation. I had hoped to create a forum in which the philosophy of our content could flourish and our community would enrich itself. Instead it has siphoned content that would normally be posted publicly in an ouroboros of shite-posting. If this problem cannot be solved, the subreddit will fall by its own hand.

Our relationship with our sister subreddit has been strained as of late. They have always been more prosperous than us, and do not seem to be suffering as we are. When we initially partnered with them, we assumed that we would be gaining users from them, and that this relationship would result in our growth. Instead it seems to have resulted in an opposite effect; people have come to browse our content, but ultimately end up straying onto our sister's page, enticed by the promise of its title. Few of them come back. Even a few of my most trusted advisers have been lost in this manner. I suppose I should have seen this as a potential result of partnering with /r/neopetsr34. Time will tell if there is a way to amend this mistake, or whether this relationship can ever work in our favour.

My wife is threatening to leave me again. She has never understood the burden of the responsibilities I bear. I cannot blame her for being dissatisfied with me. Her family offered me a hefty dowry of steam games, and she herself had both commendable photoshop skills, as well as being able and willing to verify she was a woman on skype. What could I offer her in return? An ailing subreddit focused on a children's browser game. I did not take her as my bride out of love, but out of greed and lust. She does deserve better. The thought of her leaving hurts me, however, when I am forced to consider the fate of our child...my son. Little Paarthurnax Ash-Ketchum McDonald. He is a good boy, nearly fifteen Youtube-rewinds of age by now. So nearly a man. I have tried to be the best father I could to him, but I have always known that the limited scope of my domain would suppress his soul as it has suppressed my ambition. This land is more burden than gift. Still, it is our home and we must make the most of it. My wife has told me she will leave for /r/neopets if we cannot increase our karma gain threefold by the 20th of Boaty McBoatface, three cycles hence. I almost welcome my family's flight from this place. Perhaps if my son can succeed in the veritable metropolis (at least in comparison to this squalid hamlet) of /r/neopets, then, in a way, I have done good in this world.

I was at a festival this weekend and noticed there is a subculture of young white dudes in Tommy Bahama shirts. It wasn't like 1 or 2 people, but there were a lot of guys in loafers, khaki shorts, a Tommy Bahama or 50s Woodie car t-shirts, and the same short hair cut. It didn't seem like a bad fashion trend, but like something else was going on. Not really sure if this is the new face of fascism or just an awful expression of normcore where guys in their 20s-30s dress like overweight men in their 50s,

Thinking about that woman who wrote her novel in a car service center and the car place was super proud, but instead she wrote the were-rollercoaster novel.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Shell Game on March 27, 2018, 09:06:05 am

Thinking about that woman who wrote her novel in a car service center and the car place was super proud, but instead she wrote the were-rollercoaster novel.Sanguinary Novel?, March 27, 2018, 08:30:43 am

you mean twisted? I've been considering reading my copy into a microphone. it's super bad, but like. bad the way old internet stuff was bad: filled with purple prose and cliched lines and the unnerving threat of overly explicit sex between vaguely humanoid creatures without actually going all the way. (i think. i have yet to read it all the way through.)

Thinking about that woman who wrote her novel in a car service center and the car place was super proud, but instead she wrote the were-rollercoaster novel.Sanguinary Novel?, March 27, 2018, 08:30:43 am

you mean twisted? I've been considering reading my copy into a microphone. it's super bad, but like. bad the way old internet stuff was bad: filled with purple prose and cliched lines and the unnerving threat of overly explicit sex between vaguely humanoid creatures without actually going all the way. (i think. i have yet to read it all the way through.)Shell Game, March 27, 2018, 09:06:05 am

What the fuck did I used to do all day? I've taken the past couple of days off sick and I'm unbearably restless after 4 days of sitting here doing nothing. I know I wake up every Monday thinking I need another day or two of weekend but this is awful.

I watch a lot of 'dog reunited with family member who Went Away for A While' type videos (soldiers, oil rig guys, college kids coming home on break, etc). They tend to vary in length - most are about two minutes long or so - but there's a common formula. You get to see the dog, the person holding the camera walks-and-talks their way to a door, and then there's a shot of the excited and very happy dog jumping up on the delighted human and licking them in the face. You see the entire first burst of energy, where the dog seemingly can't believe Dad's home again, and then usually a few seconds after that. What's interesting to me is that a lot of them go to 3, even 4 minutes. Even though these are videos that have been uploaded to youtube willingly, watching them for too long can feel a little uncomfortable, or like I'm seeing something too intimate that I shouldn't be seeing - sometimes the person holding the camera will start talking to the person who's returned, about how their day was, while the dog plays excitedly.

It's weird to complain that watching home movies feels intimate, but seeing the insides of so many different peoples' homes feels like i've been invited to see something more private than usual because there's a happy dog attached to it. That's an interesting evolution in how we behave on the internet, anyway. imo.

I downloaded tab for a cause, which is an app that plays a couple banner ads on your new tabs page and in return allows you to donate the money gained from the adverts to a charity of your choice. It's pretty good, but one of the charities is "The Foundation to Decrease Worldsuck" which is a charity set up to fund other charities by John Green, his brother, one of the Fine brothers, and a bunch of other smug nerd culture pieces of shit. I'm glad that you're benefiting good causes but...if you name your charity the charity equivalent of boaty mcboatface, go fuck yourself.

Clickbait Article: BREAKING NEWS: Ready Player One Movie Does Nothing To Handle Social IssuesMe: *leans forwards, puts hands on chin* Reaaaaalllllyyyy???? I'd love to hear about it! But I've just learned something FASCINATING about water and I've just GOT to share it with you!

Whenever one of the really nerdy bad discords I'm in starts talking about The Elder Scrolls and how completely awful Bethesda is and Skyrim is so unimaginative Blah Blah Blah I just pop in and say I didn't like Morrowind when it came out, say how annoying and bad the combat was and still is, throw in some stuff about liking Fallout 4, then go AFK for a bit and grab a sandwich or something.

If I knew how, I’d edit the ”real advice from a real man” reading from the r/nofap episode in on top of some philosophical samurai film. I can’t stop picturing a montage of a lone samurai walking the streets of Edo, fending off challengers, and meditating under a waterfall, all the while bragging to himself how he’s been fap-free for about a week.

Everyone come around and look at the incredible rip-off man Cliff Bleszinski. Years ago ripoff artist with real talent took every action movie character cliche and ground it into a wonderful cannoli called Duke Nukem. Then Cliffy B took the resulting delicacy pushed out everything fun about it (that sweet cannoli creme of tongue and cheek humor and fun gameplay) and covered it all in high definition brown textures. And he was harolded for hus unprecidented feats of ripoffry! Now he's taking another rip off of a rip off made by his former company (Epic) and trying to rip it off yet. Can he do it? Will he reach such Radical Heights?

i can't stop playing with this fucking can opener. it's 1:30 and I can't stop playing with this fucking can opener. it's really well balanced so it's fun to juggle around and flip open and closed and pretend like i'm a cool bad guy whose weapon of choice is a can opener but it's 1:30 and i need to stop playing with this fucking can opener.

There's parts of the world where they grow mangoes and pineapples and shit half the year, and I'm stuck in a country where we just get fucking apples. No-one in the entire universe has or will ever say "I guess peaches are great but you know what I really fancy right now? A quince." 8000 different types of bland and slightly bitter root vegetable will grow in fucking anything but there's roughly three square feet of ground in the country that can support a melon.

Even the good stuff we get here is ridiculously difficult to produce. You can grow raspberries but you need to do it in a high security facility (but still with plenty of fresh air and sunlight and water and everything) lest the birds eat them all long before they're ever fit for human consumption, and also the stems are fucking weaponised and you get about three berries per plant per year. Strawberries, too, but if the wind blows the wrong direction at any point during their growth they'll taste like fuck all and you'll still be charged a billion pounds a punnet.

I'd love to eat more greens and less carbs, mother but unfortunately tesco has a surplus of courgettes and fuck all else. You should've given birth in a country that wasn't fucking miserable. They did some awful things in the process but I can't 100% blame my ancestors for wanting to plunder the rest of the world for it's produce.

Nothing like meeting a stranger at work who turns out to have lived in the same neighborhood where you used to live, getting in to a good conversation about quasi-legal zoning abuses and gentrification and how much it had changed that neighborhood and how many people were driven out by it, and it's a really good, nuanced conversation but then suddenly they drop a bunch of Ayn Rand fandom and sovereign citizen shit on you and tell you to read The Fountainhead, and you have to kind of gracefully roll with it until they leave, because you're at work.

I swear it was only a few weeks ago there was goddamn snow now its 25 degrees and I'm dying. I don't know how people live in warm places. If it's cold I can always add layers as necessary but when it's hot there's nothing else I can do without resorting to public nudity followed by skinning myself.

Fuck the weather. Why can't it just be a steady 12 outside and 17 inside at all times?

I got so excited to get home and off work for the weekend and now that I'm home I don't know what to do for the rest of the day.I feel like this happens way too much for me (more then the average person, anyway)

There's a TF2 charity stream at hugs.tf happening this weekend. They should've named it "24 Terrible Ubers". I know they wouldn't have had any way to know, but I'm still a little disappointed.Spooks, April 21, 2018, 02:50:42 am

The time has come, it's here at last,RED and BLU mercs have all amassed,To shoot each other in the faceand launch the rocket into space,Raising money for Special Effectso donating would be correct,All this and much more,Hugs.tf

Scout is running really fastSoldier's rockets fly right past,Something's wrong with Pyro's brainAnd Demoman is drunk again,Sandwich Heavy is your friendEngineer's here to defendMedic's got his uber alrightBut he's in the Sniper's sightsSpy's betrayed you all alongAnd I'm still singin this fuckin song!

on the one hand, if they can, would the world would be filled with hybrids, all trending towards one particular "average" furry? what would such a creature look like? or would they be the same species as one of their parents, or some random third species?

on the other hand, if they cant, there would most likely be a stigma against interspecies relationships, as dating outside ones species would mean an inability to procreate. i find the social implications troubling.

In Another World With My SmartphoneIn Another World With My Snow ConeIn Another World With My Kill DroneIn Another World With My Car LoanIn Another World With My GallstoneIn Another World With My TromboneIn Another World With My Self-OwnIn Another World With da motha fuckin share z0ne

on the one hand, if they can, would the world would be filled with hybrids, all trending towards one particular "average" furry? what would such a creature look like? or would they be the same species as one of their parents, or some random third species?

on the other hand, if they cant, there would most likely be a stigma against interspecies relationships, as dating outside ones species would mean an inability to procreate. i find the social implications troubling.krytton, April 23, 2018, 10:07:22 am

on the one hand, if they can, would the world would be filled with hybrids, all trending towards one particular "average" furry? what would such a creature look like? or would they be the same species as one of their parents, or some random third species?

on the other hand, if they cant, there would most likely be a stigma against interspecies relationships, as dating outside ones species would mean an inability to procreate. i find the social implications troubling.krytton, April 23, 2018, 10:07:22 am

Considering how many implausible hybrids furries come up with, I think they'd have to be able to cross-breed. Either that or they're grown in a lab somewhere.

on the one hand, if they can, would the world would be filled with hybrids, all trending towards one particular "average" furry? what would such a creature look like? or would they be the same species as one of their parents, or some random third species?

on the other hand, if they cant, there would most likely be a stigma against interspecies relationships, as dating outside ones species would mean an inability to procreate. i find the social implications troubling.krytton, April 23, 2018, 10:07:22 am

Dunno whether "able" is the right word but I'd bet a jar of peanut butter that a lot of them have tried

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Is It Normal this Disgusting Giant Sherman Tank on April 23, 2018, 02:13:31 pm

My favorite fact about Bill Maher is that he's on record as saying he doesn't believe in germ theory.

My other favorite fact about Bill Maher is that he will almost certainly die before I do.

on the one hand, if they can, would the world would be filled with hybrids, all trending towards one particular "average" furry? what would such a creature look like? or would they be the same species as one of their parents, or some random third species?

on the other hand, if they cant, there would most likely be a stigma against interspecies relationships, as dating outside ones species would mean an inability to procreate. i find the social implications troubling.krytton, April 23, 2018, 10:07:22 am

This one company keeps sending risk assessments titled "[site] - risk ass" and I'm secretly 11 so I can't really take it seriously.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Is It Normal this Disgusting Giant Sherman Tank on April 24, 2018, 01:02:09 pm

My favorite thing about the the site I found that was read on Garbage Day (http://www.miketomich.com/) is the utterly insane things he believes about cars. He praises the mushy suspension and steering systems of the old 70s land yachts and claims it's healthier for your bones and joints than modern tight suspensions.

Now I'll allow there's maybe a 0.0001% chance he's right about the repetitive motions experienced while driving can do bad things to your bones and joints. But do you know what's also hazardous to your health? Crashing your car into a wall or a tree or another car because the steering is so sloppy and unresponsive that it doesn't turn in time. Especially in a car with no crumple zones or airbags and a heavy steering column that's just waiting to crush your ribcage in a collision.

Low point of my day was going into the shed to take some bikes out of there so i could see if any of them were in usable condition since they hadn't been touched in a while and then immediately after getting the last bike out, twisting my ankle incredibly bad. It's most likely sprained. It's like pain on my wedding day.

Lower point was realizing after I managed to limp inside and sit down that I couldn't move, I had to pee, nobody was home to help me get around, and all I had nearby was a water bottle.

How old is old enough to handle the internet these days? Is the internet actually more dangerous and repulsive than it was ten years ago, or does it just seem that way because more people are aware of it? I was thinking about how I would introduce it to my kid if I had one.

In all honesty, I'd let them have free reign, but be extremely watchful and tell them to come to you if they see anything they don't understand.

For real, considering how everywhere and everything has an internet presence today - and how much it'll likely increase in the future - I think it's impossible to keep children away from it by the time they know basic tech literacy (e.g. knowing how to turn on a tablet or smartphone). There's also the scope of it. Even something as easy-to-access as Youtube contains years and years worth of content, and there's a lot of insidious stuff masking itself as kid's entertainment that, unless you're constantly watching over your kud's shoulder, you can't be sure they haven't seen, and you can't block every website that you know to have kid-unsafe content, since there's about a dozen more that you don't know about.

Thankfully, I think more elementary schools are putting in basic computer literacy as their curriculum, and I think once more and more schools and kids start learning about it, they'll probably expamd it to include internet literacy as well - stuff like being aware of spam and viruses, keeping away from strangers, and how to find actually kid-friendly websites. All-in-all, I think as long as you give a child a good talking to and make sure they're learning safe navigation, you'll be fine.

How old is old enough to handle the internet these days? Is the internet actually more dangerous and repulsive than it was ten years ago, or does it just seem that way because more people are aware of it? I was thinking about how I would introduce it to my kid if I had one.Sovereign, April 29, 2018, 08:30:33 pm

I don’t really know what a good parenting policy is, but the internet 10 years ago was insanely fucked up. Looking back, I’m pretty shocked at the stuff I regularly saw as a youth.

IMO it’s probably worse now not for the typical dangerous stuff, but more because of its ubiquity. Even if you never see awful porn or hate sites, you can get easily sucked into social stuff more than before. I blame my teenage forum addiction for my lasting social anxieties and toxic attitudes.

How old is old enough to handle the internet these days? Is the internet actually more dangerous and repulsive than it was ten years ago, or does it just seem that way because more people are aware of it? I was thinking about how I would introduce it to my kid if I had one.Sovereign, April 29, 2018, 08:30:33 pm

I don’t really know what a good parenting policy is, but the internet 10 years ago was insanely fucked up. Looking back, I’m pretty shocked at the stuff I regularly saw as a youth.

IMO it’s probably worse now not for the typical dangerous stuff, but more because of its ubiquity. Even if you never see awful porn or hate sites, you can get easily sucked into social stuff more than before. I blame my teenage forum addiction for my lasting social anxieties and toxic attitudes.Darkly, April 30, 2018, 05:14:45 am

Yeah, I agree. I was mainly thinking about all the shock sites, learning how to navigate weird strangers on the internet and things like virus protection since those were the main obstacles for me when I was browsing about a decade ago. However I didn't consider social media and its influences over developing minds because it's perhaps the most insidious facet of commonplace internet activities, even for savvy folk.

I was watching the recent Junji Ito anthology series, and I noticed something that bugs me a lot in animation, when the moon looks like this:

(https://i.imgur.com/1kG2Apz.png)

Like, that is not a shape that results from having a light illuminating half a sphere. You can write down a fucking equation to tell you the shape that it should be, put that in a graphing calculator, and make it happen. People got no excuses.

At the absolute minimum, the tips of the crescent should be halfway around the circle, not 3/4 or whatever the fuck is going on there.

I don't know why everyone keeps using social media for political discussion. It's not good for that. No political discussion, right or left leaning, on any social media platform has ever had any worth or consequence. It's just people trying to show off how smart they are for cool points and then the people who disagree with them being smarmy and shitty about it and then the original poster gets smarmy and shitty in return.

Just use social media for what it's meant for. Just look at pictures of your friends having fun, or read their jokes or opinions on movies. Fuck's sake.

Nah, when I was in college I would make people sit down and watch La Blue Girl. I was never under any illusion that I wasn't Mort.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on May 04, 2018, 02:23:47 pm

I actually knew a kid in middle school who looked a ton like how Mort is drawn, only different glasses, I vividly remember him trying to get me to talk with him about which anime girl is the hottest, and I wasn't having any of his shit, because I knew, as a 13 year old, that that's creepy.

For the record he tried to make me watch Elfen Lied, which, I'm pretty sure he was jerking it to

I found another genre of reddit content I love equally as much as "[X] ruined my romantic relationship" and it's "I'm going to quit my job to pursue my dream"

It's for the same reason too, because the statement is totally contradictory to the truth most of the time

like on reddit "[X] ruined my romantic relationship" means "I ruined my relationship adjacent to [X]" and "I'm going to quit my job to pursue my dream" means "I don't like working so I hope that if I quit my stable job to try and profit off of this whim I'll be instantly successful"

Edit: The cream of the fucking crop of this genre is "I quit my job to pursue streaming as a career" which translates to "I'm unemployed and I own a computer, hopefully people will pay me to do what I do for fun anyway"

people on the internet may say that there's a sexual fetish for riding on trains called siderodromophilia, but I sure as fuck can't find any funny posts about it. a dissapointing journeyGirlKisser420, May 09, 2018, 05:59:34 am

I don't know, maybe like the flashlight enthusiasts, just really fucking crazy train people might be fun to read about. And there is definitely, definitely not a lack of those

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on May 09, 2018, 10:27:10 am

people on the internet may say that there's a sexual fetish for riding on trains called siderodromophilia, but I sure as fuck can't find any funny posts about it. a dissapointing journeyGirlKisser420, May 09, 2018, 05:59:34 am

I don't know, maybe like the flashlight enthusiasts, just really fucking crazy train people might be fun to read about. And there is definitely, definitely not a lack of thoseCyborguinary Novel?, May 09, 2018, 07:18:44 am

What tweak will improve the velocity of model train? I tried putting rocks on it, but it only made it slower???

If your username on the Internet is "Wolfclock" you may want to step away from the monitor for a minute, no I mean literally, look at how it reads from back there, gosh, how did you not figure this one out, cripes.

If your username on the Internet is "Wolfclock" you may want to step away from the monitor for a minute, no I mean literally, look at how it reads from back there, gosh, how did you not figure this one out, cripes.Spooks, May 11, 2018, 12:01:50 pm

What's so wrong with a wolfdock? Where else would wolf ships load and unload?

Whenever I ask an asian person to help me find asian ingredients in their store for something I'm cooking I am always so ready to be called an idiot and told I'm looking for the wrong thing and banished from the parkdale global supermarket forever

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Meat on May 13, 2018, 09:35:04 am

Why use Occam's Razor when you can buy the new Gilette™ Petaglyde, with new parallel 5-glyde technology

Whenever I ask an asian person to help me find asian ingredients in their store for something I'm cooking I am always so ready to be called an idiot and told I'm looking for the wrong thing and banished from the parkdale global supermarket foreverWrought, May 12, 2018, 11:30:25 pm

This is why I look up packaging and walk very quickly through the store.

Like whenever I ask for something without an english name (where the english name is usually an approximation/description rather than a 1/1 thing) I just become very intensely aware that I'm speaking a language I don't know anything about and if I don't say the name of the thing exactly right I could be saying something completely different

David Attenborough: The buffalo stands its ground. Weighing more than all of them combined, the lions will have to somehow topple the bull to be able to feed. However, just a swing of the neck could see the lions impaled by the bull's formidable horns. Truly, the water buffalo is the Dark Souls of prey.

it must be weird for old portal of evil types to have been wondering about how the internet's changing, and the strangeness of the early internet fading away, to see teens roasting new york times op eds

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: Shell Game on May 21, 2018, 05:40:28 pm

it must be weird for old portal of evil types to have been wondering about how the internet's changing, and the strangeness of the early internet fading away, to see teens roasting new york times op edsGirlKisser420, May 21, 2018, 05:36:21 pm

There should be a version of Godwin's law, but, like, instead of it being "how long does it take this online argument for someone to call someone hitler" it's "how long does it take this discussion about video games for someone to mention dark souls."

This korean history book i'm reading for class has a short story that ends with "Those who heard this story were all deeply moved." which I found really funny because it's like a 12th century version of putting "this is so sad" at the bottom of a shitty deep fried meme

I was at the store and wanted to see if they had a specific flavor of Mt. Dew in stock. They didn't, so I went on the Mt. Dew wiki and saw that it was a one-time promotion from last year with no plans of bringing it back this summer. I then realized that, at that momemt, I probably just underwent the saddest experience on planet Earth until some dipshit in France threw a glass of water in his waiter's face for joking about his artificially distressed Rick and Morty tshirt a few seconds later. Anyway, the human experience fucking sucks.

Title: Completely pointless Thought Of The Day thread
Post by: A Whirring Bone-White Gleech on May 28, 2018, 09:07:25 pm

Bitcoin continues to bleed, and it fills me with shadenfreude. It's fluctuating a lot, because of course it is, but it's down to $7,104 as of right this minute, and the long-term trend-line appears to be down.